--- title: Mia writes «the silly, slippery, slithering snake». Which of Kipling… — Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved»,… · tree and pragmatics description: Mia writes «the silly, slippery, slithering snake». Which of Kipling's tricks is she using? 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Which of Kipling's tricks is she using? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mia, Kipling · **What happens:** write, slither, use, trick This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo» of the language 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/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mia writes «the silly, slippery, slithering snake». ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t2:1 # text = Mia writes «the silly, slippery, slithering snake». 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 5 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 slithering slither VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | present | Mia | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **slither** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which of Kipling's tricks is she using? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t2:2 # text = Which of Kipling's tricks is she using? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 obj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present · progressive | Mia | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | | 2 | **trick** | | Kipling | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} A pun ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t2:o1:1 # text = A pun 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A refrain ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t2:o2:1 # text = A refrain 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 refrain refrain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A clipped word ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t2:o3:1 # text = A clipped word 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 clipped clip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clip** | participle | | | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Alliteration ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t2:o4:1 # text = Alliteration 1 Alliteration alliteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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