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title: Innit mad, which way did he ride off, forwards or backwards? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit mad, which way did he ride off, forwards or backwards? Test 5 · ★ 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 question and of each 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

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Innit mad, which way did he ride off, forwards or backwards?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** way · **What happens:** ride off

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This is test 5 · ★ 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. 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t5:1
# text = Innit mad, which way did he ride off, forwards or backwards?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	forwards	forwards	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride off** | past · do-support | which way |  |  |  |  | forwards *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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forwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t5:o1:1
# text = forwards
1	forwards	forwards	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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round in circles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t5:o2:1
# text = round in circles
1	round	round	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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backwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t5:o3:1
# text = backwards
1	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t5:o4:1
# text = down
1	down	down	ADV	RB	_	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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