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title: Which record did the priest consult to establish the date of the gro… — Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which record did the priest consult to establish the date of the groom's disappearance? Exam question 3 of lesson 477 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a dead man and wakes three hundred years late» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a…

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Which record did the priest consult to establish the date of the groom's disappearance?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** record, groom · **What happens:** consult, establish, disappear · **To what, where:** date

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 477 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a dead man and wakes three hundred years late» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/477-pg22373-part69/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:e3:1
# text = Which record did the priest consult to establish the date of the groom's disappearance?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	groom	groom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consult** | past · do-support | which record |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **establish** | to-infinitive | which record *not said here* | the date of the groom's disappearance |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient |
| 3 | **disappear** |  | the groom |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=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}

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The church-books

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:e3:o1:1
# text = The church-books
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Records

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:e3:o2:1
# text = Records
1	Records	record	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 village diary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:e3:o3:1
# text = The village diary
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	diary	diary	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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Books

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:e3:o4:1
# text = Books
1	Books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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