--- title: test: the snake was a prince, right? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring,… · tree and pragmatics description: test: the snake was a prince, right? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1833-pg7128-part17/t8/) [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 Charmed Ring,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1833-pg7128-part17/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman… test: the snake was a prince, right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snake · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** prince This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a 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/1833-pg7128-part17/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t8:1 # text = test: the snake was a prince, right? 1 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 right right INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the snake | a prince | | | | | tree rules | 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} yeah, son of Raja Indrasha, cursed to be a snake for ages ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t8:o1:1 # text = yeah, son of Raja Indrasha, cursed to be a snake for ages 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 Indrasha Indrasha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advcl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curse** | participle | | son of Raja *not said here* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | a snake | | | for ages | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} yeah, son of some raja ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t8:o2:1 # text = yeah, son of some raja 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 raja raja NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} yeah, a prince ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t8:o3:1 # text = yeah, a prince 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} yeah, son of Raja Indrasha ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1833-pg7128-part17:t8:o4:1 # text = yeah, son of Raja Indrasha 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 Indrasha Indrasha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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