--- title: Ngl, what did the gondolas glide over in Venice? — Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcine… · tree and pragmatics description: Ngl, what did the gondolas glide over in Venice? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/905-pg27200-part116/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/) / [Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcine…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/905-pg27200-part116/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo… Ngl, what did the gondolas glide over in Venice? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl, gondolas · **What happens:** do, glide over · **To what, where:** Venice This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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/905-pg27200-part116/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t6:1 # text = Ngl, what did the gondolas glide over in Venice? 1 Ngl Ngl PROPN NNP 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 gondolas gondola NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 glide glide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 over over ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Venice Venice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Ngl | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **glide over** | present | the gondolas | | | Venice | | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in venice=Trajectory | 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} silver canals ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t6:o1:1 # text = silver canals 1 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the rippling sunlit waves of the Adriatic sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t6:o2:1 # text = the rippling sunlit waves of the Adriatic sea 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 rippling rippling NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 sunlit sunlit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Adriatic Adriatic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wave** | | | the Adriatic sea | | | | | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} green water ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t6:o3:1 # text = green water 1 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the dark green water of the old canal ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t6:o4:1 # text = the dark green water of the old canal 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` 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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