--- title: what was the ship like, bruv? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics description: what was the ship like, bruv? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 881 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid refuses the knife and rises among the daughters of the air» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/881-pg27200-part92/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/881-pg27200-part92/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re… what was the ship like, bruv? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ship · **What happens:** be This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 881 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid refuses the knife and rises among the daughters of the air» 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/881-pg27200-part92/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t6:1 # text = what was the ship like, bruv? 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 4 det _ _ 4 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the ship like bruv | | | | | | tree rules | 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} Big white sails, a calm sea, and a bright purple tent on deck ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t6:o1:1 # text = Big white sails, a calm sea, and a bright purple tent on deck 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sails sail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 deck deck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Calm sea and purple tent ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t6:o2:1 # text = Calm sea and purple tent 1 Calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Bright lanterns and a white tent ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t6:o3:1 # text = Bright lanterns and a white tent 1 Bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lanterns lantern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Tall masts and a gold deck ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t6:o4:1 # text = Tall masts and a gold deck 1 Tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 masts mast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 deck deck NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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