---
title: Cola-Mattheo was a total numpty, right? What was he called in the st… — Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Sna… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cola-Mattheo was a total numpty, right? What was he called in the story? Test 4 · ★ 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 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1904-pg7277-part41/t4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Sna…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1904-pg7277-part41/) / t4

# Test 4 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cola-Mattheo was a total numpty, right? What was he called in the story?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cola · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** total numpty, Cola, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* Cola-Mattheo was a total numpty, right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t4:1
# text = Cola-Mattheo was a total numpty, right?
1	Cola	Cola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mattheo	Mattheo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	numpty	numpty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Cola | a total numpty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* What was he called in the story?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t4:2
# text = What was he called in the story?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | Cola |  | the story |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a dreamer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t4:o1:1
# text = a dreamer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dreamer	dreamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a simpleton

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t4:o2:1
# text = a simpleton
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rude, lazy lad who never listened to his mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t4:o3:1
# text = a rude, lazy lad who never listened to his mother
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **listen** | past | a rude lazy lad |  |  |  |  | to his mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to mother=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t4:o4:1
# text = a fool
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Sna…, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1904-pg7277-part41/t3/)
- next →: [Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Sna…, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1904-pg7277-part41/t5/)
- ↑ back to [Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the Princess](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1904-pg7277-part41/)