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title: what did the oars look like splashing in the lake? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the oars look like splashing in the lake? Test 9 · ★ 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
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…

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what did the oars look like splashing in the lake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** oars · **What happens:** do, look, splash · **To what, where:** lake

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t9:1
# text = what did the oars look like splashing in the lake?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | the oars |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **splash** | gerund | the oars *not said here* |  |  | the lake |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location |

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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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Fins of a big fish, honestly, slicing neatly through the calm lake water

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t9:o1:1
# text = Fins of a big fish, honestly, slicing neatly through the calm lake water
1	Fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	slicing	slice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slice** | gerund | Fins of a big fish |  |  |  |  | through the calm lake water; honestly, neatly *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through water=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fins of a fish, honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t9:o2:1
# text = Fins of a fish, honestly
1	Fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Little silver spades, sort of

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t9:o3:1
# text = Little silver spades, sort of
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spades	spade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spade** | present | Little silver | sort |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Arms of a swan, I think

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t9:o4:1
# text = Arms of a swan, I think
1	Arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Arms of a swan |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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