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title: Specify the location in which the Soldier interrs the witch's coffin. — Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Specify the location in which the Soldier interrs the witch's coffin. Exam question 3 of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

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Specify the location in which the Soldier interrs the witch's coffin.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Soldier · **What happens:** specify, interr · **To what, where:** location, coffin

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks her» 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/471-pg22373-part63/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e3:1
# text = Specify the location in which the Soldier interrs the witch's coffin.
1	Specify	specify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	interrs	interr	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **specify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the location |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme |
| 2 | **interr** | present | the Soldier | the witch's coffin |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the graveyard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e3:o1:1
# text = the graveyard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	graveyard	graveyard	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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the cellar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e3:o2:1
# text = the cellar
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the riverbank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e3:o3:1
# text = the riverbank
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e3:o4:1
# text = the forest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	forest	forest	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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