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title: Wait, was the lake warm or proper icy? — pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives af… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, was the lake warm or proper icy? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 864 «pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives after his ring, is claimed by the Ice Maiden, and Babette waits out the storm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 2 · ★ · pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives after his ring, is cla…

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Wait, was the lake warm or proper icy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** lake

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 864 «pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives after his ring, is claimed by the Ice Maiden, and Babette waits out the storm» 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/864-pg27200-part75/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t2:1
# text = Wait, was the lake warm or proper icy?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the lake |  |  |  |  | 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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Warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t2:o1:1
# text = Warm
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Freezing and dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t2:o2:1
# text = Freezing and dark
1	Freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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Proper icy cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t2:o3:1
# text = Proper icy cold
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lukewarm and calm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t2:o4:1
# text = Lukewarm and calm
1	Lukewarm	Lukewarm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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