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title: What are those dead bugs piled on the snow? — Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maide… · tree and pragmatics
description: What are those dead bugs piled on the snow? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

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What are those dead bugs piled on the snow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dead bugs · **What happens:** be, pile · **To what, where:** dead bugs, snow

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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/854-pg27200-part65/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t12:1
# text = What are those dead bugs piled on the snow?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
6	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that dead bugs |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pile** | participle |  | that dead bugs *not said here* |  | the snow |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on snow=Destination |

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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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butterflies and bees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t12:o1:1
# text = butterflies and bees
1	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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dead leaves and twigs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t12:o2:1
# text = dead leaves and twigs
1	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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beetles and flies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t12:o3:1
# text = beetles and flies
1	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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dragonflies and gnats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t12:o4:1
# text = dragonflies and gnats
1	dragonflies	dragonfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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