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title: Ok, the snake wrapped its tail round Grannonia, then what? — Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Sna… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok, the snake wrapped its tail round Grannonia, then what? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 13 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

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Ok, the snake wrapped its tail round Grannonia, then what?

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

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess» 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/1904-pg7277-part41/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t13:1
# text = Ok, the snake wrapped its tail round Grannonia, then what?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | past | the snake | snake's tail |  |  |  | round Grannonia | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=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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bit her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t13:o1:1
# text = bit her
1	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | past |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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hit her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t13:o2:1
# text = hit her
1	hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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praised her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t13:o3:1
# text = praised her
1	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | past |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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

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kissed her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t13:o4:1
# text = kissed her
1	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |

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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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