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title: how did the boat end up, like, for real? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: how did the boat end up, like, for real? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 863 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and Babette near their wedding, then their boat drifts away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…

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how did the boat end up, like, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boat · **What happens:** be, end up

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 863 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and Babette near their wedding, then their boat drifts away» 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/863-pg27200-part74/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t10:1
# text = how did the boat end up, like, for real?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **end up** | present | the boat |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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It broke loose and floated off into the middle of the lake, honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t10:o1:1
# text = It broke loose and floated off into the middle of the lake, honestly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | It |  |  |  |  | honestly, loose *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **float off** | past |  |  |  | the middle of the lake |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into middle=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It sank down to the bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t10:o2:1
# text = It sank down to the bottom
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink down** | past | It |  |  |  |  | to the bottom; down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It broke loose and floated off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t10:o3:1
# text = It broke loose and floated off
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | It |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **float off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It drifted back to shore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t10:o4:1
# text = It drifted back to shore
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drifted	drift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift back** | past | It |  |  | shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |

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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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