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title: Who was it in the water with the bench nearly going over, the mum? — Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was it in the water with the bench nearly going over, the mum? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

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Who was it in the water with the bench nearly going over, the mum?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bench · **What happens:** be, go over · **To what, where:** water

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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/843-pg27200-part54/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t8:1
# text = Who was it in the water with the bench nearly going over, the mum?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the water and the mum |  | with the bench | tree rules |
| 2 | **go over** | gerund | the bench *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nearly, over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

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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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the cook's helper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t8:o1:1
# text = the cook's helper
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	helper	helper	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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Martha

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t8:o2:1
# text = Martha
1	Martha	Martha	PROPN	NNP	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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the washer-woman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t8:o3:1
# text = the washer-woman
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	washer	washer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t8:o4:1
# text = the boy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	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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