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title: Bruh, who did the fiends send to babysit the Fiddler? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, who did the fiends send to babysit the Fiddler? Test 6 · ★ 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 w
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and…

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Bruh, who did the fiends send to babysit the Fiddler?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fiends · **What happens:** do, send, babysit · **To what, where:** Fiddler

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t6:1
# text = Bruh, who did the fiends send to babysit the Fiddler?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	babysit	babysit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **send** | present | the fiends |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **babysit** | to-infinitive | the fiends *not said here* | the Fiddler |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddler=Beneficiary |

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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 {#o1}

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a devil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t6:o1:1
# text = a devil
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one fiend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t6:o2:1
# text = one fiend
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	fiend	fiend	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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one fiend who was the oldest in hell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t6:o3:1
# text = one fiend who was the oldest in hell
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | one fiend |  |  | hell |  | old *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a fiend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t6:o4:1
# text = a fiend
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fiend	fiend	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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