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title: Lol, what was the Ant-King mad about? — Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the se… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what was the Ant-King mad about? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1932 «Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal talk and the animals repay his kindness» 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 w
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal ta…

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Lol, what was the Ant-King mad about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1932 «Grimm, The White Snake, part 1: the servant gets animal talk and the animals repay his kindness» 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/1932-pg7277-part69/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1932-pg7277-part69:t12:1
# text = Lol, what was the Ant-King mad about?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	Ant	ant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | tree rules |

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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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the servant digging up his whole kingdom of ants and destroying the hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1932-pg7277-part69:t12:o1:1
# text = the servant digging up his whole kingdom of ants and destroying the hill
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | gerund | the servant *not said here* | his whole kingdom of ants |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | gerund | the servant *not said here* | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient |

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

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the horse crushing his people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1932-pg7277-part69:t12:o2:1
# text = the horse crushing his people
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	crushing	crush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crush** | gerund | the horse *not said here* | horse's people |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the ravens stealing his food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1932-pg7277-part69:t12:o3:1
# text = the ravens stealing his food
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | gerund | the ravens | his food |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the horse trampling his people while racing through the ant hill near the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1932-pg7277-part69:t12:o4:1
# text = the horse trampling his people while racing through the ant hill near the palace
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trampling	trampling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	racing	race	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **race** | gerund | the horse trampling *not said here* |  |  | the ant hill near the palace |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hill=Trajectory |

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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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