--- title: bruh, the priest told someone to go ask who they were, who? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: bruh, the priest told someone to go ask who they were, who? Test 12 · ★ 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 o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/489-pg22373-part81/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/489-pg22373-part81/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Hasty Word, part 1: a youth who wi… bruh, the priest told someone to go ask who they were, who? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** priest, they · **What happens:** tell, go, ask, be · **To what, where:** someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t12:1 # text = bruh, the priest told someone to go ask who they were, who? 1 bruh bruh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 iobj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 ccomp _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the priest | | someone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the priest *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the priest *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | they | | | | | | tree rules | 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} the merchant ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t12:o1:1 # text = the merchant 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a neighbor ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t12:o2:1 # text = a neighbor 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 neighbor neighbor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} his laborer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t12:o3:1 # text = his laborer 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 laborer laborer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the priest's young laborer from the field ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:489-pg22373-part81:t12:o4:1 # text = the priest's young laborer from the field 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 laborer laborer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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