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title: Proper cool, but what made the water split open? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicia… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper cool, but what made the water split open? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

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Proper cool, but what made the water split open?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** water · **What happens:** make, split

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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/1939-pg7277-part76/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t5:1
# text = Proper cool, but what made the water split open?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **split** | past | the water |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The dwarf's wand touched the waves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t5:o1:1
# text = The dwarf's wand touched the waves
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | the dwarf's wand | the waves |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wave=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The dwarf shouted a spell and the river heard him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t5:o2:1
# text = The dwarf shouted a spell and the river heard him
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the dwarf | a spell |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the river | dwarf |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The trumpeter blew a loud note

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t5:o3:1
# text = The trumpeter blew a loud note
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trumpeter	trumpeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the trumpeter | a loud note |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent note=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The flute-player's magic beard pulled on the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t5:o4:1
# text = The flute-player's magic beard pulled on the water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  | the flute player's magic beard *not said here* |  |  |  | on the water | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on water=Theme |

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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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