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title: Bruh, why did the Serpent King lie down and snore? — Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, why did the Serpent King lie down and snore? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vas…

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Bruh, why did the Serpent King lie down and snore?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Serpent King · **What happens:** lie down, snore

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1755 «Russian Folk-Tales, Vassili and Mark the Rich, part 6: Vassili visits the Serpent King and tricks him out of Mark's ships» 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/1755-pg641-part6/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t5:1
# text = Bruh, why did the Serpent King lie down and snore?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	snore	snore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | past · do-support | the Serpent King |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **snore** | infinitive | the Serpent King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He was tired from flying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t5:o1:1
# text = He was tired from flying
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He was ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t5:o2:1
# text = He was ill
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He was full

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t5:o3:1
# text = He was full
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He was bored there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1755-pg641-part6:t5:o4:1
# text = He was bored there
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	bored	bore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bore** | past · passive |  | He |  | there |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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