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title: deadass, what did the youth cut off the serpent? — Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: deadass, what did the youth cut off the serpent? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1648 «Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar, and a seven-headed serpent» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar,…

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deadass, what did the youth cut off the serpent?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** deadass, youth · **What happens:** do, cut off · **To what, where:** youth, serpent

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1648 «Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar, and a seven-headed serpent» 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/1648-pg5615-part37/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1648-pg5615-part37:t12:1
# text = deadass, what did the youth cut off the serpent?
1	deadass	deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | deadass | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cut off** | participle | the youth *not said here* | the serpent |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector serpent=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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tongues

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1648-pg5615-part37:t12:o1:1
# text = tongues
1	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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seven tongues

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1648-pg5615-part37:t12:o2:1
# text = seven tongues
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1648-pg5615-part37:t12:o3:1
# text = seven
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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seven scales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1648-pg5615-part37:t12:o4:1
# text = seven scales
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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