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title: Wasn't the first sign the Basin of Water, like? — English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wasn't the first sign the Basin of Water, like? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 263 «English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father is found» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and h…

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Wasn't the first sign the Basin of Water, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** first sign

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 263 «English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father is found» 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/263-pg14241-part30/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t5:1
# text = Wasn't the first sign the Basin of Water, like?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Basin	Basin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | the first sign |  |  |  |  | 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}

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Yeah, the Feather Coat thing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t5:o1:1
# text = Yeah, the Feather Coat thing
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Coat	coat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, the cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t5:o2:1
# text = Nah, the cat
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Yeah, the Basin of Water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t5:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the Basin of Water
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Basin	Basin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nah, the Ladle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t5:o4:1
# text = Nah, the Ladle
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ladle	Ladle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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