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title: Yo, what did the serpent turn into to hide in the wall? — Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the serpent turn into to hide in the wall? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Test 4 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…

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Yo, what did the serpent turn into to hide in the wall?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** serpent · **What happens:** turn, hide · **To what, where:** wall

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» 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/1104-pg29672-part10/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t4:1
# text = Yo, what did the serpent turn into to hide in the wall?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · do-support | the serpent |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | the serpent *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wall=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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An ant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t4:o1:1
# text = An ant
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ant	ant	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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A needle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t4:o2:1
# text = A needle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	needle	needle	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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A spider

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t4:o3:1
# text = A spider
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	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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A pin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:t4:o4:1
# text = A pin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pin	pin	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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