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title: what's the water like, is it mad weedy? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the water like, is it mad weedy? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…

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what's the water like, is it mad weedy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** water · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» 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/801-pg27200-part12/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t9:1
# text = what's the water like, is it mad weedy?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	weedy	weedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | water |  |  |  |  | weedy *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 {#o1}

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yellow lilies and brown reeds grow there along the bank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t9:o1:1
# text = yellow lilies and brown reeds grow there along the bank
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | yellow lilies and brown reeds |  |  | the bank; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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it's dark and cold and full of slimy green weed everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t9:o2:1
# text = it's dark and cold and full of slimy green weed everywhere
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	slimy	slimy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | dark, everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | of slimy green weed | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yellow lilies and brown reeds grow there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t9:o3:1
# text = yellow lilies and brown reeds grow there
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | yellow lilies and brown reeds |  |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dark cold water and some fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t9:o4:1
# text = dark cold water and some fish
1	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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