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title: Yo, where was the party still going when the cocks crowed? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, where was the party still going when the cocks crowed? Test 8 · ★ 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 cho
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# Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and…

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Yo, where was the party still going when the cocks crowed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** party, cocks · **What happens:** be, go, crow · **To what, where:** party

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t8:1
# text = Yo, where was the party still going when the cocks crowed?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
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	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cocks	cock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	crowed	crow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the party |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | the party |  |  |  | still |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **crow** | participle | the cocks |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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 {#o1}

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in the next cottage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t8:o1:1
# text = in the next cottage
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
at the farthest cottage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t8:o2:1
# text = at the farthest cottage
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	cottage	cottage	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 -->
at the nearest village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t8:o3:1
# text = at the nearest village
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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in the church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t8:o4:1
# text = in the church
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	church	church	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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