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title: was the water making their faces look weird? — Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the water making their faces look weird? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

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was the water making their faces look weird?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** water · **What happens:** be, make, look · **To what, where:** water, faces

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the 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/2063-pg976-part22/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t6:1
# text = was the water making their faces look weird?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the water *not said here* | their faces |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product |
| 3 | **look** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | weird *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, all wobbly, so they felt dead dizzy mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t6:o1:1
# text = Yeah, all wobbly, so they felt dead dizzy mate
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | they | dead dizzy mate |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yeah, all squiggly, so they couldn't stop laughing, even the greedy one, proper daft

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t6:o2:1
# text = Yeah, all squiggly, so they couldn't stop laughing, even the greedy one, proper daft
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	squiggly	squiggly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	daft	daft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | could | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | they *not said here* | the greedy one |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, all squiggly, so they couldn't stop laughing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t6:o3:1
# text = Yeah, all squiggly, so they couldn't stop laughing
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	squiggly	squiggly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | could | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it looked normal, but they were dead thirsty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2063-pg976-part22:t6:o4:1
# text = Nah, it looked normal, but they were dead thirsty
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | it |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | tree rules |

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