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title: bruh, why did the mom keep going door to door? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, why did the mom keep going door to door? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 489 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wished for any bride goes under the lake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi…

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bruh, why did the mom keep going door to door?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, keep, go · **To what, where:** mom, door

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 489 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wished for any bride goes under the lake» 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/489-pg22373-part81/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t1:1
# text = bruh, why did the mom keep going door to door?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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 |  | the mom |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mom=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  | door |  |  |  | to door | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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cause she wanted a good wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t1:o1:1
# text = cause she wanted a good wife
1	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | she | a good wife |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause she was bored

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t1:o2:1
# text = cause she was bored
1	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she | cause *not said here* |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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cause nobody in the village would ever say yes to her son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t1:o3:1
# text = cause nobody in the village would ever say yes to her son
1	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present |  | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition nobody=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | the village |  | village's son |  | ever |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to son=Recipient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause nobody would say yes to her son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t1:o4:1
# text = cause nobody would say yes to her son
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would · infinitive | nobody |  | her son |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to son=Recipient |

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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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