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title: what was the little one's skin like, all clear and stuff? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the little one's skin like, all clear and stuff? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» 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 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

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what was the little one's skin like, all clear and stuff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» 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/876-pg27200-part87/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t6:1
# text = what was the little one's skin like, all clear and stuff?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	appos	_	_
11	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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as white as new snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t6:o1:1
# text = as white as new snow
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
as clear as a rose-leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t6:o2:1
# text = as clear as a rose-leaf
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
pale as pearl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t6:o3:1
# text = pale as pearl
1	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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as pink as a seashell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t6:o4:1
# text = as pink as a seashell
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seashell	seashell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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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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