--- title: Quick one, what's the swamp bit like? Muddy as anything, yeah, or wh… — Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Quick one, what's the swamp bit like? Muddy as anything, yeah, or what? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1529 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess struggles across deserts and mountains to the Sun's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1529-pg540-part26/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1529-pg540-part26/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess str… Quick one, what's the swamp bit like? Muddy as anything, yeah, or what? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Quick one · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** swamp bit This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1529 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess struggles across deserts and mountains to the Sun's palace» 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/1529-pg540-part26/#t13). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Quick one, what's the swamp bit like? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t13:1 # text = Quick one, what's the swamp bit like? 1 Quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 swamp swamp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Quick one | the swamp bit | | | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* Muddy as anything, yeah, or what? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t13:2 # text = Muddy as anything, yeah, or what? 1 Muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Yeah, muddy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t13:o1:1 # text = Yeah, muddy 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, bogs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t13:o2:1 # text = Yeah, bogs 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 bogs bog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yeah, she has to cross swamps ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t13:o3:1 # text = Yeah, she has to cross swamps 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 swamps swamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | she | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | swamps | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swamp=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, they're really muddy ones ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t13:o4:1 # text = Yeah, they're really muddy ones 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | they | muddy ones | | | | | tree rules | **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. 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