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title: there's a snake on the path, looks dead — Bites, stings and things you find on t… · tree and pragmatics
description: there's a snake on the path, looks dead Test 13 · ★ of lesson 238 «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 13 · ★ · Bites, stings and things you find on the ground

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there's a snake on the path, looks dead

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** snake · **What happens:** be, look

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 238 «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday 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/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t13:1
# text = there's a snake on the path, looks dead
1	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a snake on the path |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | a snake on the path *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Leave it and walk well around it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t13:o1:1
# text = Leave it and walk well around it
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | it |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Poke it with a long stick to see if it moves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t13:o2:1
# text = Poke it with a long stick to see if it moves
1	Poke	poke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with a long stick | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with stick=Instrument |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **move** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | stick |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pick it up to check if it's really dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t13:o3:1
# text = Pick it up to check if it's really dead
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Step over it quickly n keep going

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t13:o4:1
# text = Step over it quickly n keep going
1	Step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	n	n	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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