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title: wait who got smacked by the branches and died? — Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an av… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait who got smacked by the branches and died? Test 3 · ★ 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 op
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Rudy, part 66: an avalanche kills the un…

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wait who got smacked by the branches and died?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, branches · **What happens:** wait, smack, die

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t3:1
# text = wait who got smacked by the branches and died?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	smacked	smack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **smack** | past · passive | the branches |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **die** | past | the branches *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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the guide, neck snapped badly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t3:o1:1
# text = the guide, neck snapped badly
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | past | guide neck |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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rudy's dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t3:o2:1
# text = rudy's dad
1	rudy	rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the uncle, skull all cracked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t3:o3:1
# text = the uncle, skull all cracked
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | past | the uncle and skull |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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his brother, ribs all broke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:855-pg27200-part66:t3:o4:1
# text = his brother, ribs all broke
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | his brother and ribs |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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