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title: Lit, why did the peasant's barns fill up? — Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Brea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lit, why did the peasant's barns fill up? Test 12 · ★ 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 and of
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

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Lit, why did the peasant's barns fill up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** barns · **What happens:** do, fill up

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t12:1
# text = Lit, why did the peasant's barns fill up?
1	Lit	lit	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	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 | **fill up** | present | the peasant's barns |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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A rich uncle's gift

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t12:o1:1
# text = A rich uncle's gift
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gift** |  | a rich uncle |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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His magic horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t12:o2:1
# text = His magic horse
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The demon's smart planning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t12:o3:1
# text = The demon's smart planning
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** |  | the demon |  |  |  |  |  | nom planning «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stolen grain from others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t12:o4:1
# text = Stolen grain from others
1	Stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | participle |  | grain |  | others |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent grain=Theme from other=Source |

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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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