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title: bro, what did the shepherd stay stubborn about? — Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shephe… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what did the shepherd stay stubborn about? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron
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# Test 7 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

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bro, what did the shepherd stay stubborn about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** shepherd · **What happens:** stay

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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/666-pg2435-part6/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t7:1
# text = bro, what did the shepherd stay stubborn about?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	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	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · do-support | the shepherd |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative*; stubborn *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme what=Location |

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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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no toast till he got the princess as his wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t7:o1:1
# text = no toast till he got the princess as his wife
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | no toast | the princess |  |  |  | as his wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus as wife=Attribute |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no toast till he got the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t7:o2:1
# text = no toast till he got the princess
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | no toast | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he refused any toast until the king agreed to the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t7:o3:1
# text = he refused any toast until the king agreed to the princess
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | he | any toast |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | to the princess | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no marriage without the crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t7:o4:1
# text = no marriage without the crown
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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