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title: Did the sea look like a rose leaf or nah? — Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the sea look like a rose leaf or nah? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disgu…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Did the sea look like a rose leaf or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** look

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» 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/1021-pg27200-part232/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t11:1
# text = Did the sea look like a rose leaf or nah?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | the sea |  |  |  |  | like a rose leaf | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, when the waves were rough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t11:o1:1
# text = Yeah, when the waves were rough
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	rough	rough	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** | past | the waves |  |  |  |  | rough *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the sea looked like a rose leaf when the wind slept and the clouds glowed red, fr

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t11:o2:1
# text = Yeah, the sea looked like a rose leaf when the wind slept and the clouds glowed red, fr
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the sea |  |  |  |  | like a rose leaf | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **glow** | past | the clouds | red fr |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fr=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it did look like a rose leaf when the wind slept and clouds glowed red

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t11:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it did look like a rose leaf when the wind slept and clouds glowed red
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | it |  |  |  |  | like a rose leaf | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **glow** | past | clouds |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, when the clouds glowed red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t11:o4:1
# text = Yeah, when the clouds glowed red
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | past | the clouds |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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