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title: dude, what did the snakes make into a gateway? — Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena i… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, what did the snakes make into a gateway? Test 15 · ★ of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 15 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the S…

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dude, what did the snakes make into a gateway?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dude, snakes · **What happens:** do, make · **To what, where:** gateway

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» 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/669-pg2435-part9/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t15:1
# text = dude, what did the snakes make into a gateway?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | the snakes |  |  | a gateway |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into gateway=Product |

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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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branches bent over the path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t15:o1:1
# text = branches bent over the path
1	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | participle |  | branches *not said here* |  | the path |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over path=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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snakes that twisted together into a glowing gateway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t15:o2:1
# text = snakes that twisted together into a glowing gateway
1	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	twisted	twist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twist** | past | snakes |  |  | a glowing gateway |  | together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gateway=Trajectory |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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roots tangled in the earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t15:o3:1
# text = roots tangled in the earth
1	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tangle** | participle |  | roots *not said here* |  | the earth |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
snakes twisted together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t15:o4:1
# text = snakes twisted together
1	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	twisted	twist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twist** | participle |  | snakes *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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