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title: what did the church-books say, bro? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the church-books say, bro? Test 8 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Two Friends: a groom drinks with a…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what did the church-books say, bro?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** church books · **What happens:** do, say · **To what, where:** bro · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:t8:1
# text = what did the church-books say, bro?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the church books | bro |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bro=Topic |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they showed he'd been buried and forgotten, and nobody had bothered to check the dates for ages

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:t8:o1:1
# text = they showed he'd been buried and forgotten, and nobody had bothered to check the dates for ages
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bothered	bother	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bury** | past · perfect · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bother** | past · perfect | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | the dates |  |  | for ages |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent date=Theme for age=Attribute |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he'd vanished three hundred years back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:t8:o2:1
# text = he'd vanished three hundred years back
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past · perfect | he |  |  |  | year |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he'd gone three hundred years back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:t8:o3:1
# text = he'd gone three hundred years back
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it said he left a century back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:477-pg22373-part69:t8:o4:1
# text = it said he left a century back
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave back** | past | he |  |  |  | century |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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