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title: What got the boy yanked under the waves at the stream? — Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What got the boy yanked under the waves at the stream? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1229 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-prince steals the sword, and the mermaid pulls him under the waves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-princ…

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What got the boy yanked under the waves at the stream?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** get, yank · **To what, where:** waves

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1229 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-prince steals the sword, and the mermaid pulls him under the waves» 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/1229-pg3282-part30/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t11:1
# text = What got the boy yanked under the waves at the stream?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	yanked	yank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **yank** | past | the boy |  |  | the waves |  | at the stream | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at stream=Theme |

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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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An eel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t11:o1:1
# text = An eel
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eel	eel	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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A river spirit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t11:o2:1
# text = A river spirit
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	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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A pike

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t11:o3:1
# text = A pike
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pike	pike	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The mermaid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1229-pg3282-part30:t11:o4:1
# text = The mermaid
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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