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title: bro what did the avalanche do to the trees? — Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an av… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro what did the avalanche do to the trees? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 855 «Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the uncle, and Rudy becomes the family's hunter and guide» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

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bro what did the avalanche do to the trees?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 855 «Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the uncle, and Rudy becomes the family's hunter and guide» 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/855-pg27200-part66/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t2:1
# text = bro what did the avalanche do to the trees?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **do** | past · do-support | the avalanche | bro |  |  |  | to the trees | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
broke them like matchsticks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t2:o1:1
# text = broke them like matchsticks
1	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	matchsticks	matchstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | like matchsticks | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
snapped them like dry rushes and buried the path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t2:o2:1
# text = snapped them like dry rushes and buried the path
1	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | like dry rushes | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 2 | **bury** | past |  | the path |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
snapped them like dry rushes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t2:o3:1
# text = snapped them like dry rushes
1	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | like dry rushes | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ripped every single tree from the ground like weeds in a garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t2:o4:1
# text = ripped every single tree from the ground like weeds in a garden
1	ripped	rip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rip** | past |  | every single tree |  | the ground |  | like weeds; in a garden | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tree=Patient from ground=Source |

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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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