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title: Be honest, did the grandfather say go or stay at the merchant's? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, did the grandfather say go or stay at the merchant's? Test 7 · ★ 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 e
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# Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

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Be honest, did the grandfather say go or stay at the merchant's?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grandfather · **What happens:** be, say, go, stay · **To what, where:** merchant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t7:1
# text = Be honest, did the grandfather say go or stay at the merchant's?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | the grandfather *not said here* |  |  | the merchant |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at merchant=Location |

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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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stay home and wait for the witch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t7:o1:1
# text = stay home and wait for the witch
1	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the witch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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go to the graveyard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t7:o2:1
# text = go to the graveyard
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the graveyard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to graveyard=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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stay at the merchant's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t7:o3:1
# text = stay at the merchant's
1	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the merchant |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at merchant=Location |

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

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go to the merchant's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t7:o4:1
# text = go to the merchant's
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the merchant |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial\_Location |

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