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description: what feast was coming up, like, the big one? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

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what feast was coming up, like, the big one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** feast · **What happens:** come up · **To what, where:** big one

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t9:1
# text = what feast was coming up, like, the big one?
1	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past · progressive | what feast | the big one |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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a town fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t9:o1:1
# text = a town fair
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a saints day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t9:o2:1
# text = a saints day
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	saints	saints	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	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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like a huge holiday where the whole parish goes to the cathedral and eats and dances all day

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t9:o3:1
# text = like a huge holiday where the whole parish goes to the cathedral and eats and dances all day
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the whole parish |  |  | the cathedral |  | like a huge holiday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cathedral=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the whole parish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dance** | present | the whole parish *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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a church feast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:t9:o4:1
# text = a church feast
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	feast	feast	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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