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description: Identify the creature which spoke with a human voice and conferred good fortune upon the fool. Exam question 3 of lesson 467 «Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's pike-magic pails, sledge and cudgel make the town angry, so they plan a trick» of the books course of Mova's primary
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's…

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Identify the creature which spoke with a human voice and conferred good fortune upon the fool.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, creature · **What happens:** identify, speak, confer · **To what, where:** creature · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 467 «Russian Folk-Tales, Emilian the Fool, part 59: the fool's pike-magic pails, sledge and cudgel make the town angry, so they plan a trick» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/467-pg22373-part59/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:467-pg22373-part59:e3:1
# text = Identify the creature which spoke with a human voice and conferred good fortune upon the fool.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	conferred	confer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the creature |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the creature |  |  |  |  | with a human voice and conferred good fortune upon the fool | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with voice=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **confer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:467-pg22373-part59:e3:o1:1
# text = The fox
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:467-pg22373-part59:e3:o2:1
# text = A fish
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The large talking pike that lived in the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:467-pg22373-part59:e3:o3:1
# text = The large talking pike that lived in the river
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the large talking pike |  |  | the river |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |

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

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The pike

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:467-pg22373-part59:e3:o4:1
# text = The pike
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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