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title: Mate, how did the snake show up at the palace? — Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Sna… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how did the snake show up at the palace? Test 9 · ★ 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's choice was 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mate, how did the snake show up at the palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, show up · **To what, where:** snake, palace

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t9:1
# text = Mate, how did the snake show up at the palace?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the snake |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Eventuality |
| 2 | **show up** | present | Mate |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a golden carriage with six white elephants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t9:o1:1
# text = in a golden carriage with six white elephants
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a red coach with six black horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t9:o2:1
# text = in a red coach with six black horses
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a huge golden carriage with six white elephants and a band of drummers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t9:o3:1
# text = in a huge golden carriage with six white elephants and a band of drummers
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	drummers	drummer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a golden carriage with six white elephants and twelve grooms riding ahead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1904-pg7277-part41:t9:o4:1
# text = in a golden carriage with six white elephants and twelve grooms riding ahead
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	grooms	groom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | gerund | twelve grooms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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