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title: Bro, where did the Serpent take him? — Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Peasan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, where did the Serpent take him? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1718 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Peasant, part 42: Martin's mother goes to the King to woo his daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Peasant, part 42: Martin's…

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Bro, where did the Serpent take him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Serpent · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1718 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Peasant, part 42: Martin's mother goes to the King to woo his daughter» 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/1718-pg640-part42/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1718-pg640-part42:t6:1
# text = Bro, where did the Serpent take him?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
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	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | the Serpent |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |

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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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to a hidden cave by the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1718-pg640-part42:t6:o1:1
# text = to a hidden cave by the river
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
into the hollow hills and beyond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1718-pg640-part42:t6:o2:1
# text = into the hollow hills and beyond
1	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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into the deep earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1718-pg640-part42:t6:o3:1
# text = into the deep earth
1	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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underground to the Under-world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1718-pg640-part42:t6:o4:1
# text = underground to the Under-world
1	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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