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title: Which is true? — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

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Which is true?

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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 3 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of the everyday 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/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t3:1
# text = Which is true?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *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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Snakes cannot bite if they are not rattling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t3:o1:1
# text = Snakes cannot bite if they are not rattling
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	rattling	rattle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bite** | can | Snakes |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **rattle** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | Snakes *= snake* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Most snakes would rather escape than bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t3:o2:1
# text = Most snakes would rather escape than bite
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | would | Most snakes |  |  |  |  | than bite | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Snakes chase people to bite them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t3:o3:1
# text = Snakes chase people to bite them
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | present | Snakes | people |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **bite** | to-infinitive | Snakes *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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All snakes are deadly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t3:o4:1
# text = All snakes are deadly
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all snakes |  |  |  |  | deadly *property* | tree rules |

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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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