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title: Which creature was first entangled in the Spider's snare? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature was first entangled in the Spider's snare? Exam question 1 of lesson 421 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Spider tricks the gnats, then a Smith's son torments a painted Demon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

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Which creature was first entangled in the Spider's snare?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Spider · **What happens:** entangle, snare · **To what, where:** creature

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 421 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Spider tricks the gnats, then a Smith's son torments a painted Demon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/421-pg22373-part13/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e1:1
# text = Which creature was first entangled in the Spider's snare?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	entangled	entangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Spider	Spider	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entangle** | past · passive |  | which creature |  |  |  | in the Spider's snare; first *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in snare=Theme |
| 2 | **snare** |  | the Spider |  |  |  |  |  | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=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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The Gadfly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e1:o1:1
# text = The Gadfly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gadfly	Gadfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e1:o2:1
# text = The Fly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fly	Fly	PROPN	NNP	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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The Gnat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e1:o3:1
# text = The Gnat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gnat	Gnat	PROPN	NNP	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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The Beetle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e1:o4:1
# text = The Beetle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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