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title: Wasn't the bog just a swimming pool? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wasn't the bog just a swimming pool? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 879 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the mermaid sneaks off to the sea witch and pays a terrible price» 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 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wasn't the bog just a swimming pool?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** bog

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 879 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the mermaid sneaks off to the sea witch and pays a terrible price» 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/879-pg27200-part90/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t6:1
# text = Wasn't the bog just a swimming pool?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bog	bog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	csubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | the bog |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was a thick warm bog of dark rotting mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t6:o1:1
# text = Nah, it was a thick warm bog of dark rotting mud
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bog	bog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	rotting	rotting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a thick warm bog |  |  |  | of dark rotting mud | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, it was a hot steaming marsh full of bubbling sludge and slime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t6:o2:1
# text = Nope, it was a hot steaming marsh full of bubbling sludge and slime
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	steaming	steaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a hot steaming marsh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bubble** | gerund |  | sludge and slime |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sludge=Source |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was warm sludge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t6:o3:1
# text = Nah, it was warm sludge
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sludge	sludge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | warm sludge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, just cold mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t6:o4:1
# text = Nope, just cold mud
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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