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title: What did the snake smell that was a bit dodgy? — Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the snake smell that was a bit dodgy? Test 7 · ★ 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

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What did the snake smell that was a bit dodgy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snake smell · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** snake smell

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t7:1
# text = What did the snake smell that was a bit dodgy?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the snake smell |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | the snake smell |  |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked*; dodgy *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Fresh scent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t7:o1:1
# text = Fresh scent
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t7:o2:1
# text = Blood
1	Blood	blood	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 gazelle's sweaty fur and blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t7:o3:1
# text = The gazelle's sweaty fur and blood
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rose water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t7:o4:1
# text = Rose water
1	Rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	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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