--- title: Ha, the snake bit him, didn't it? — South American Tales, The Puma and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Ha, the snake bit him, didn't it? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1261 «South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: the puma tricks the stag, the stag is framed for theft, the monkey outwits the puma» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1261-pg3282-part62/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [South American Tales, The Puma and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1261-pg3282-part62/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: th… Ha, the snake bit him, didn't it? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snake · **What happens:** bite, not do · **To what, where:** him This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1261 «South American Tales, The Puma and the Monkey, part 62: the puma tricks the stag, the stag is framed for theft, the monkey outwits the puma» 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/1261-pg3282-part62/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1261-pg3282-part62:t5:1 # text = Ha, the snake bit him, didn't it? 1 Ha ha INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | past | the snake | him *= he* | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 2 | **not** **do** | past | snake | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Yeah, right on the paw ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1261-pg3282-part62:t5:o1:1 # text = Yeah, right on the paw 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 right right ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, right on the head ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1261-pg3282-part62:t5:o2:1 # text = Yeah, right on the head 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 right right ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, right on the paw and he ran off crying ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1261-pg3282-part62:t5:o3:1 # text = Yeah, right on the paw and he ran off crying 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 right right ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 off off ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run off** | past | he | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | he *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Yeah, it bit him right on the paw and then left ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1261-pg3282-part62:t5:o4:1 # text = Yeah, it bit him right on the paw and then left 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 right right ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | past | it | him *= he* | | the paw | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on paw=Location | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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