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title: Wait, what did the imp teach Isidore to brew? — Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Brea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the imp teach Isidore to brew? Test 5 · ★ 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
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# Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Uncle Sidor's Bread, part 83: a peasan…

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Wait, what did the imp teach Isidore to brew?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, imp · **What happens:** wait, teach, brew · **To what, where:** Isidore

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t5:1
# text = Wait, what did the imp teach Isidore to brew?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	imp	imp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	Isidore	Isidore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	brew	brew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the imp |  | Isidore |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **brew** | to-infinitive | the imp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: 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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Plum wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t5:o1:1
# text = Plum wine
1	Plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Corn-brandy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t5:o2:1
# text = Corn-brandy
1	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	brandy	brandy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Honey beer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t5:o3:1
# text = Honey beer
1	Honey	honey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sour milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:491-pg22373-part83:t5:o4:1
# text = Sour milk
1	Sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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