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title: Bruv, how many snakes come piling up to the cottage? — Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, how many snakes come piling up to the cottage? Test 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 question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bruv, how many snakes come piling up to the cottage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many snakes · **What happens:** come, pile up

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This is test 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. 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t3:1
# text = Bruv, how many snakes come piling up to the cottage?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	piling	pile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | many snakes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pile up** | gerund | many snakes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the cottage | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A proper huge troop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t3:o1:1
# text = A proper huge troop
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A proper small group

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t3:o2:1
# text = A proper small group
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like, a massive pile of them all crawling in together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t3:o3:1
# text = Like, a massive pile of them all crawling in together
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	crawling	crawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | gerund | a massive pile of them *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A proper huge troop slithering in from everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:434-pg22373-part26:t3:o4:1
# text = A proper huge troop slithering in from everywhere
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	slithering	slither	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slither** | gerund | a proper huge troop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from everywhere=Trajectory |

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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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