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title: fr, what did the lanterns look like on the ship? — Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did the lanterns look like on the ship? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from the storm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

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fr, what did the lanterns look like on the ship?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr, lanterns · **What happens:** do, look

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from 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/877-pg27200-part88/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t14:1
# text = fr, what did the lanterns look like on the ship?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fr |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | the lanterns |  |  |  |  | like the ship | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like flags of all the nations waving in the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t14:o1:1
# text = like flags of all the nations waving in the wind
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | gerund | all nations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the wind | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like flags of all nations waving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t14:o2:1
# text = like flags of all nations waving
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | gerund | all nations *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like candles in the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t14:o3:1
# text = like candles in the wind
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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like many flags of all nations waving over the deck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t14:o4:1
# text = like many flags of all nations waving over the deck
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | gerund | all nations *not said here* |  |  | the deck |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over deck=Location |

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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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