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title: dude, what got swapped into the cup while he slept? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, what got swapped into the cup while he slept? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…

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dude, what got swapped into the cup while he slept?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** swap, sleep · **To what, where:** dude, cup

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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/117-pg11027-part20/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t9:1
# text = dude, what got swapped into the cup while he slept?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	swapped	swap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | past · passive |  | dude |  | the cup |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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salt water mixed with sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t9:o1:1
# text = salt water mixed with sand
1	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  | salt water *not said here* |  |  |  | with sand | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sand=Co-Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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salt water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t9:o2:1
# text = salt water
1	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sea water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t9:o3:1
# text = sea water
1	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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some bitter salty sea water from the coast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t9:o4:1
# text = some bitter salty sea water from the coast
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
2	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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