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title: Lol, what did the dog grab the corpse by? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the dog grab the corpse by? Test 11 · ★ 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 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

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Lol, what did the dog grab the corpse by?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** grab · **To what, where:** corpse

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t11:1
# text = Lol, what did the dog grab the corpse by?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past · do-support | the dog | the corpse |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary corpse=Theme |

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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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Its arm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t11:o1:1
# text = Its arm
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Its bare calves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t11:o2:1
# text = Its bare calves
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	calves	calf	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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Its hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t11:o3:1
# text = Its hair
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	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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Its torn sleeve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t11:o4:1
# text = Its torn sleeve
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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