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description: Into what forms did the serpents transform upon their descent beneath the water? Exam question 3 of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 3 · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

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Into what forms did the serpents transform upon their descent beneath the water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** serpents · **What happens:** form, transform, descend

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills him» 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/434-pg22373-part26/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:e3:1
# text = Into what forms did the serpents transform upon their descent beneath the water?
1	Into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	transform	transform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **transform** | past · do-support | the serpents |  |  |  |  | upon serpents's descent beneath the water | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **descend** |  | serpents *= serpent* |  |  |  |  | beneath the water | nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent beneath=obl |

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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 {#o1}

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Into men and women who swam away below the dike

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:e3:o1:1
# text = Into men and women who swam away below the dike
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	below	below	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dike	dike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim away** | past | men and women |  |  | the dike |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below dike=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Into handsome men and women wearing silver garments

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:e3:o2:1
# text = Into handsome men and women wearing silver garments
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund | handsome men and women *not said here* | silver garments |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Into men and women

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:e3:o3:1
# text = Into men and women
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Into birds and dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:e3:o4:1
# text = Into birds and dogs
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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