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title: «snake stuck its tongue out at me, it's gonna sting» What is right? — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics
description: «snake stuck its tongue out at me, it's gonna sting» What is right? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 87 «The reptile house: snakes» of the biology 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 3 · ★ · The reptile house: snakes

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«snake stuck its tongue out at me, it's gonna sting» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** snake, gonna sting · **What happens:** stick out, be · **To what, where:** tongue, gonna sting

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 87 «The reptile house: snakes» of the biology 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/biology/87-reptile-house-snakes/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t3:1
# text = «snake stuck its tongue out at me, it's gonna sting» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	gonna	gonna	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick out** *in a quote* | past | snake | snake's tongue |  |  |  | at me | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at i=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | snake | gonna sting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | gonna sting |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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Yes, the tongue sprays venom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t3:o1:1
# text = Yes, the tongue sprays venom
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sprays	spray	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spray** | present | the tongue | venom |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent venom=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, the tongue has a little sting at each of its two tips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t3:o2:1
# text = Yes, the tongue has a little sting at each of its two tips
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the tongue | a little sting |  | each |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only the fork part can sting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t3:o3:1
# text = Only the fork part can sting
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | can | the fork part |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The tongue is harmless; it is just smelling the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t3:o4:1
# text = The tongue is harmless; it is just smelling the air
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the tongue |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | tongue |  |  |  |  | smell *property* | tree rules |

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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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