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title: were the waterspouts like dragons or nah? — Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Jo… · tree and pragmatics
description: were the waterspouts like dragons or nah? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for Fran…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
were the waterspouts like dragons or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** waterspouts

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» 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/1016-pg27200-part227/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t11:1
# text = were the waterspouts like dragons or nah?
1	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	waterspouts	waterspout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the waterspouts |  |  |  | like dragons | 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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Shaped like birds or stone men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t11:o1:1
# text = Shaped like birds or stone men
1	Shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like birds or stone men | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Shaped like lions or wolves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t11:o2:1
# text = Shaped like lions or wolves
1	Shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like lions or wolves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like strange twisted animals, half dragon and half horse with wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t11:o3:1
# text = Like strange twisted animals, half dragon and half horse with wings
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	amod	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	10	compound	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Shaped like dragons or long dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t11:o4:1
# text = Shaped like dragons or long dogs
1	Shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like dragons or long dogs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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