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title: Who actually killed the snake, for real? — Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who actually killed the snake, for real? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

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Who actually killed the snake, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** snake

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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/1773-pg641-part24/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t5:1
# text = Who actually killed the snake, for real?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past |  | the snake |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme |

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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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The old woman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t5:o1:1
# text = The old woman
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The bride's brave brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t5:o2:1
# text = The bride's brave brother
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The master's loyal servant boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t5:o3:1
# text = The master's loyal servant boy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The gazelle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t5:o4:1
# text = The gazelle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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