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title: Yo, who's the saint who whacks witches with a mace? — Songs of the Russian People, Saints an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who's the saint who whacks witches with a mace? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 485 «Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part 77: St. Andrew, St. George and St. Nicholas each help or punish people in their own way» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Test 1 · ★ · Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part…

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Yo, who's the saint who whacks witches with a mace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** saint · **What happens:** be, whack · **To what, where:** saint, witches

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 485 «Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part 77: St. Andrew, St. George and St. Nicholas each help or punish people in their own way» 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/485-pg22373-part77/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t1:1
# text = Yo, who's the saint who whacks witches with a mace?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	whacks	whack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the saint |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whack** | present | the saint | witches |  |  |  | with a mace | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent witch=Patient with mace=Instrument |

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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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St. Paul

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t1:o1:1
# text = St. Paul
1	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	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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Saint Michael the Archangel of the heavenly host

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t1:o2:1
# text = Saint Michael the Archangel of the heavenly host
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Archangel	Archangel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	list	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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St. Nicholas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t1:o3:1
# text = St. Nicholas
1	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	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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St. Andrew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t1:o4:1
# text = St. Andrew
1	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	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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