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title: Dude, what did the fiend say, "time to be ___"? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did the fiend say, "time to be ___"? Test 9 · ★ 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 rig
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# Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fiddler: the fiends, a bridge and…

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Dude, what did the fiend say, "time to be \_\_\_"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** do, say, be · **To what, where:** fiend, \_ · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t9:1
# text = Dude, what did the fiend say, "time to be ___"?
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	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fiend	fiend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude | the fiend |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiend=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dude |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | \_ |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t9:o1:1
# text = off
1	off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t9:o2:1
# text = on
1	on	on	PUNCT	NFP	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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off to bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t9:o3:1
# text = off to bed
1	off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:476-pg22373-part68:t9:o4:1
# text = away
1	away	away	ADV	RB	_	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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