--- title: So the snake king, whose son was he again? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's S… · tree and pragmatics description: So the snake king, whose son was he again? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1830-pg7128-part14/t3/) [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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's S…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1830-pg7128-part14/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a… So the snake king, whose son was he again? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snake king · **What happens:** be This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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/1830-pg7128-part14/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t3:1 # text = So the snake king, whose son was he again? 1 So so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | the snake king and the snake king and the snake king's son's son | | | | again | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Kashyapa's ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t3:o1:1 # text = Kashyapa's 1 Kashyapa Kashyapa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Adisesha's ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t3:o2:1 # text = Adisesha's 1 Adisesha Adisesha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A son of the mighty king of the sea serpents ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t3:o3:1 # text = A son of the mighty king of the sea serpents 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 serpents serpent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} The son of a great sage named Kashyapa ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t3:o4:1 # text = The son of a great sage named Kashyapa 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sage sage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 8 Kashyapa Kashyapa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | participle | | the son of a great sage *not said here* | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | **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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