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title: was the beer sus or what? — Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a p… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the beer sus or what? Test 6 · ★ 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

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was the beer sus or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** beer sus

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This is test 6 · ★ 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. 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t6:1
# text = was the beer sus or what?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	csubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	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 beer sus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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it was pretty decent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t6:o1:1
# text = it was pretty decent
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | decent, pretty *property* | tree rules |

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

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so good nobody could imagine it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t6:o2:1
# text = so good nobody could imagine it
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | could | nobody | it |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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it was so bad that the whole village spit it out and wouldn't touch any more of it ever

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t6:o3:1
# text = it was so bad that the whole village spit it out and wouldn't touch any more of it ever
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spit	spit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spit out** | present | the whole village | it |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **touch** | would |  | any more of village |  |  | ever |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Co-Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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tasted kinda bad honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t6:o4:1
# text = tasted kinda bad honestly
1	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
4	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | past |  |  |  |  |  | bad, honestly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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