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title: Fam, what made the corpses stop fighting? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fam, what made the corpses stop fighting? Test 10 · ★ 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 the question and of each 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

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Fam, what made the corpses stop fighting?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fam, corpses · **What happens:** make, stop, fight

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t10:1
# text = Fam, what made the corpses stop fighting?
1	Fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Fam |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **stop** | present | the corpses |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | the corpses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «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 {#o1}

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Dawn came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t10:o1:1
# text = Dawn came
1	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Dawn |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bells rang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t10:o2:1
# text = Bells rang
1	Bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past | Bells |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sun rose at last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t10:o3:1
# text = The sun rose at last
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  | last |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Cocks started crowing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t10:o4:1
# text = Cocks started crowing
1	Cocks	cock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	crowing	crow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | Cocks |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **crow** | gerund | Cocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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