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title: my cousin swears there's like a million funnel-webs in every shoe in… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics
description: my cousin swears there's like a million funnel-webs in every shoe in Sydney, true? Test 18 · ★★ of lesson 69 «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 18 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

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my cousin swears there's like a million funnel-webs in every shoe in Sydney, true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin · **What happens:** swear, be · **To what, where:** shoe

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This is test 18 · ★★ of lesson 69 «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/#t18).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t18:1
# text = my cousin swears there's like a million funnel-webs in every shoe in Sydney, true?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swears	swear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	funnel	funnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	webs	web	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present | my cousin |  |  | every shoe in Sydney |  | like million funnel webs | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | my cousin *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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No, funnel-webs live only in zoos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t18:o1:1
# text = No, funnel-webs live only in zoos
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	funnel	funnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	webs	web	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | funnel webs |  |  | zoos |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, every shoe in Sydney has spiders in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t18:o2:1
# text = Yes, every shoe in Sydney has spiders in it
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every shoe in Sydney | spiders |  | it |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Yes, so nobody in Sydney wears shoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t18:o3:1
# text = Yes, so nobody in Sydney wears shoes
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | nobody | shoes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Probably exaggerated, but shaking out shoes is still a good habit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t18:o4:1
# text = Probably exaggerated, but shaking out shoes is still a good habit
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
5	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exaggerate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake out** | gerund |  | shoes |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | shaking | a good habit |  |  | still |  | 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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