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title: How did she mess up the water, proper careless? — Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did she mess up the water, proper careless? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c…

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How did she mess up the water, proper careless?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** mess up · **To what, where:** water

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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/1706-pg640-part30/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t14:1
# text = How did she mess up the water, proper careless?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mess	mess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	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 | **mess up** | past · do-support | she | the water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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She knocked the basin over by accident while she was singing a song to herself

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t14:o1:1
# text = She knocked the basin over by accident while she was singing a song to herself
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knocked	knock	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	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock over** | past | She | the basin |  |  |  | by accident | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent basin=Theme by accident=Destination |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | she | a song | herself *= she* |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to herself=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She knocked the basin over and then ran away from the monster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t14:o2:1
# text = She knocked the basin over and then ran away from the monster
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knocked	knock	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	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock over** | past | She | the basin |  |  |  | over *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent basin=Patient |
| 2 | **run away** | past | She *not said here* |  |  |  | then | from the monster; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from monster=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The bottle cracked in her hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t14:o3:1
# text = The bottle cracked in her hand
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | past | the bottle |  |  | her hand |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She knocked the basin over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t14:o4:1
# text = She knocked the basin over
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knocked	knock	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	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock over** | past | She | the basin |  |  |  | over *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent basin=Patient |

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