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title: Ok so what did the demon do before the drought? — Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Brea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok so what did the demon do before the drought? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 491 «Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasant saves his crust, a little demon steals it and then serves him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

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Ok so what did the demon do before the drought?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** demon · **What happens:** do

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 491 «Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasant saves his crust, a little demon steals it and then serves him» 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/491-pg22373-part83/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t11:1
# text = Ok so what did the demon do before the drought?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the demon |  |  |  | before the drought |  | vn act-114-1 «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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Painted the barn red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t11:o1:1
# text = Painted the barn red
1	Painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past |  | the barn |  |  |  | red *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent barn=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dug a huge well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t11:o2:1
# text = Dug a huge well
1	Dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | past |  | a huge well |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent well=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hid all the grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t11:o3:1
# text = Hid all the grain
1	Hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past |  | all grain |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient |

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

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Sowed seed in a swamp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t11:o4:1
# text = Sowed seed in a swamp
1	Sowed	sow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sow** | past |  | seed |  | a swamp |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme in swamp=Destination |

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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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