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title: Ok, in the chapel, what were the corpses fighting over? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok, in the chapel, what were the corpses fighting over? Test 9 · ★ 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
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# Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Moujik and the Corpse, part 70: th…

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Ok, in the chapel, what were the corpses fighting over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chapel, corpses · **What happens:** be, fight over · **To what, where:** corpses

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t9:1
# text = Ok, in the chapel, what were the corpses fighting over?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
11	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the chapel | the corpses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight over** | gerund | the corpses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Who gets to eat the soldier and who must leave the chapel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t9:o1:1
# text = Who gets to eat the soldier and who must leave the chapel
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | the soldier |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | must |  | the chapel |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chapel=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Which corpse gets the first bite of the soldier's flesh tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t9:o2:1
# text = Which corpse gets the first bite of the soldier's flesh tonight
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | which corpse | the first bite of the soldier's flesh |  |  | tonight |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bite=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bite** |  |  | the soldier's flesh |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Who will bury the soldier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t9:o3:1
# text = Who will bury the soldier
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | future |  | the soldier |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Who gets to eat the soldier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:478-pg22373-part70:t9:o4:1
# text = Who gets to eat the soldier
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | the soldier |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient |

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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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