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title: Dude, what did the fiends sniff out, lol? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did the fiends sniff out, lol? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 476 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and a rich moujik's release» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dude, what did the fiends sniff out, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** do, sniff out

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 476 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and a rich moujik's release» 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/476-pg22373-part68/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t3:1
# text = Dude, what did the fiends sniff out, lol?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sniff	sniff	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sniff out** | present | Dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a Russian smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t3:o1:1
# text = a Russian smell
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a human smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t3:o2:1
# text = a human smell
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the smell of a Russian soul hiding under the stove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t3:o3:1
# text = the smell of a Russian soul hiding under the stove
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund | the smell of a Russian soul *not said here* |  |  | the stove |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stove=Location |
| 2 | **smell** |  | a Russian soul |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a super strong Russian smell coming from the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t3:o4:1
# text = a super strong Russian smell coming from the house
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | a strong Russian smell *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial\_Location |

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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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