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title: Into what receptacle did the old man direct that the malt be deposit… — Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Into what receptacle did the old man direct that the malt be deposited? Exam question 3 of lesson 483 «Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews the feast's beer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

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Into what receptacle did the old man direct that the malt be deposited?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** receptacle · **What happens:** do, deposit · **To what, where:** old man, malt

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 483 «Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews the feast's beer» 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/483-pg22373-part75/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e3:1
# text = Into what receptacle did the old man direct that the malt be deposited?
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	receptacle	receptacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	malt	malt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	deposited	deposit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | receptacle | the old man |  |  |  | direct *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
| 2 | **deposit** | infinitive · passive |  | the malt |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e3:o1:1
# text = yard
1	yard	yard	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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the barrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e3:o2:1
# text = the barrel
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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pit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e3:o3:1
# text = pit
1	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e3:o4:1
# text = the well
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	well	well	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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**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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