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title: Which brothers were total losers in the king's story? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which brothers were total losers in the king's story? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 472 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess saves the Prince and the Fire-Bird is described» 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 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess s…

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Which brothers were total losers in the king's story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** total losers, story

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 472 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fire-Bird, part 64: the Princess saves the Prince and the Fire-Bird is described» 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/472-pg22373-part64/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:472-pg22373-part64:t10:1
# text = Which brothers were total losers in the king's story?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	losers	loser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which brothers | total losers |  | the king's story |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The two older ones, they fell asleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:472-pg22373-part64:t10:o1:1
# text = The two older ones, they fell asleep
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | they | the two older ones *not said here* |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The two elder brothers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:472-pg22373-part64:t10:o2:1
# text = The two elder brothers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 two older ones, they ran off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:472-pg22373-part64:t10:o3:1
# text = The two older ones, they ran off
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | past | they | the two older ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The middle brothers, they dozed off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:472-pg22373-part64:t10:o4:1
# text = The middle brothers, they dozed off
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dozed	doze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doze off** | past | the middle brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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