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title: yo, what made the dry stick turn green? — Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, what made the dry stick turn green? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 464 «Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the Baba Yaga and are healed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the B…

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yo, what made the dry stick turn green?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dry stick · **What happens:** make, turn · **To what, where:** dry stick

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 464 «Russian Folk-Tales, Katoma, part 56: the heroes trap the Baba Yaga and are healed» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/464-pg22373-part56/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t7:1
# text = yo, what made the dry stick turn green?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the dry stick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive | the dry stick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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the magic river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t7:o1:1
# text = the magic river
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the cold spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t7:o2:1
# text = the cold spring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t7:o3:1
# text = the sun
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the healing well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:464-pg22373-part56:t7:o4:1
# text = the healing well
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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