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title: Proper creepy, what sort of head did that serpent have? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper creepy, what sort of head did that serpent have? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 7 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

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Proper creepy, what sort of head did that serpent have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sort · **What happens:** have, sort · **To what, where:** head

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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/1898-pg7277-part35/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t7:1
# text = Proper creepy, what sort of head did that serpent have?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | what sort of head |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | head |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Scales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t7:o1:1
# text = Scales
1	Scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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A bird's head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t7:o2:1
# text = A bird's head
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A woman's head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t7:o3:1
# text = A woman's head
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A woman's head on a long serpent's neck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:t7:o4:1
# text = A woman's head on a long serpent's neck
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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