Test 13 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

Ok, the snake wrapped its tail round Grannonia, then what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake · What happens: wrap · To what, where: tail

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 wrapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ok	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrapped	nsubj
5	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrapped	obj
8	round	round	ADP	_	9 Grannonia	case
9	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wrapped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 what	advmod
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 wrapped	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wrapped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past	the snake	snake's tail				round Grannonia	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

bit her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past		her = she					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

hit her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

Option 3

praised her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 praised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past		her = she					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

kissed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past		her = she					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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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