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title: Wait, so the devil's house was on what mountain? — Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, so the devil's house was on what mountain? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 488 «Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a cursed son, and a soldier who never washes end in devils outwitted by devils.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a curse…

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Wait, so the devil's house was on what mountain?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, house · **What happens:** wait, be

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 488 «Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a cursed son, and a soldier who never washes end in devils outwitted by devils.» 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/488-pg22373-part80/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t2:1
# text = Wait, so the devil's house was on what mountain?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	parataxis	_	_
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the devil's house |  |  |  |  |  | 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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the Onega cliff, fam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t2:o1:1
# text = the Onega cliff, fam
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Onega	Onega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Mian mountain, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t2:o2:1
# text = the Mian mountain, mate
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mian	mian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the Novgorod peak, dude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t2:o3:1
# text = the Novgorod peak, dude
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Ural hill, bruh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t2:o4:1
# text = the Ural hill, bruh
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ural	Ural	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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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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