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title: okay so what was sitting in the lily cup? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: okay so what was sitting in the lily cup? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

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okay so what was sitting in the lily cup?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** lily cup

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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/888-pg27200-part99/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t6:1
# text = okay so what was sitting in the lily cup?
1	okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the lily cup |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cup=Location |

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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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a tiny sleeping swan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t6:o1:1
# text = a tiny sleeping swan
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a small white moth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t6:o2:1
# text = a small white moth
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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a little maiden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t6:o3:1
# text = a little maiden
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a frog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t6:o4:1
# text = a frog
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	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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