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title: Lowkey, what did the Gypsy ask for as a pledge? — Songs of the Russian People, Saints an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what did the Gypsy ask for as a pledge? Test 4 · ★ 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 pra
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# Test 4 · ★ · Songs of the Russian People, Saints and Heathen Gods, part…

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Lowkey, what did the Gypsy ask for as a pledge?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lowkey · **What happens:** do, ask · **To what, where:** Gypsy

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t4:1
# text = Lowkey, what did the Gypsy ask for as a pledge?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Gypsy	Gypsy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Lowkey | the Gypsy |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gypsy=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Lowkey |  |  |  |  | for a pledge | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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the horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t4:o1:1
# text = the horse
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the golden stirrup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t4:o2:1
# text = the golden stirrup
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stirrup	stirrup	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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the silver spurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t4:o3:1
# text = the silver spurs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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his iron bridle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:485-pg22373-part77:t4:o4:1
# text = his iron bridle
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bridle	bridle	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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