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title: Of what profession was the traveller who fled from the corpses? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of what profession was the traveller who fled from the corpses? Exam question 4 of lesson 478 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: the moujik wins back the coffin-lid and saves two dead lads» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

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Of what profession was the traveller who fled from the corpses?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** traveller · **What happens:** be, flee · **To what, where:** traveller, corpses

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 478 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: the moujik wins back the coffin-lid and saves two dead lads» 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/478-pg22373-part70/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:e4:1
# text = Of what profession was the traveller who fled from the corpses?
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	profession	profession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
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	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the traveller |  |  |  | of profession | tree rules |
| 2 | **flee** | past | the traveller |  |  | the corpses |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from corpse=Initial\_Location |

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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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A peasant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:e4:o1:1
# text = A peasant
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A miller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:e4:o2:1
# text = A miller
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A soldier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:e4:o3:1
# text = A soldier
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	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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A priest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:e4:o4:1
# text = A priest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	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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