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title: Was the sea-water gross, or was it sweet like Coke? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the sea-water gross, or was it sweet like Coke? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…

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Was the sea-water gross, or was it sweet like Coke?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gross · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sea water gross

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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/775-pg2591-part51/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t2:1
# text = Was the sea-water gross, or was it sweet like Coke?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gross	gross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Coke	Coke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the sea water gross |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | gross |  |  |  |  | like Coke; sweet *property* | 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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It was salty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t2:o1:1
# text = It was salty
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | salty *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It was bitter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t2:o2:1
# text = It was bitter
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | bitter *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t2:o3:1
# text = Sweet
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Salty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t2:o4:1
# text = Salty
1	Salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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