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title: Ngl, what's the deal with the Pike being like a god in Russia? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what's the deal with the Pike being like a god in Russia? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 468 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magic orders win a palace and the King's pardon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magi…

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Ngl, what's the deal with the Pike being like a god in Russia?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** deal, Russia

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 468 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magic orders win a palace and the King's pardon» 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/468-pg22373-part60/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:t6:1
# text = Ngl, what's the deal with the Pike being like a god in Russia?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Pike	Pike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ngl | the deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | Russia |  | like a god; with the Pike | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It's a fish that sings daily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:t6:o1:1
# text = It's a fish that sings daily
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | a fish |  |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It's a pet that lives in the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:t6:o2:1
# text = It's a pet that lives in the palace
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a pet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | a pet |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's a fish that can talk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:t6:o3:1
# text = It's a fish that can talk
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | can | a fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It's a famous fish in old myths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:t6:o4:1
# text = It's a famous fish in old myths
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a famous fish |  | old myths |  |  | tree rules |

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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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