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title: Dude, what was that boat light as? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what was that boat light as? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dude, what was that boat light as?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** boat light

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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/1917-pg7277-part54/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t8:1
# text = Dude, what was that boat light as?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Dude and that boat light | that boat light |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A sock, real soggy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t8:o1:1
# text = A sock, real soggy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	soggy	soggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A brick, dead heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t8:o2:1
# text = A brick, dead heavy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A rose leaf, proper light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t8:o3:1
# text = A rose leaf, proper light
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A feather, super fluffy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t8:o4:1
# text = A feather, super fluffy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	super	super	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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