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title: So what was floating when Eliza came out? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what was floating when Eliza came out? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…

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So what was floating when Eliza came out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Eliza · **What happens:** float, come out

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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/1020-pg27200-part231/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t11:1
# text = So what was floating when Eliza came out?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** | past | Eliza |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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A rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t11:o1:1
# text = A rose
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Two lilies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t11:o2:1
# text = Two lilies
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Three red poppies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t11:o3:1
# text = Three red poppies
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three white lilies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t11:o4:1
# text = Three white lilies
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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