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title: Be honest, what was hiding under the water? — Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, what was hiding under the water? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…

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Be honest, what was hiding under the water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** water

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» 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/2076-pg976-part35/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t12:1
# text = Be honest, what was hiding under the water?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the water |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Sharp rugged rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t12:o1:1
# text = Sharp rugged rocks
1	Sharp	sharp	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Soft sandy gravel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t12:o2:1
# text = Soft sandy gravel
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gravel	gravel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sharp teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t12:o3:1
# text = Sharp teeth
1	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Large smooth stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2076-pg976-part35:t12:o4:1
# text = Large smooth stones
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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