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title: Where was the swan chillin' when he touched the water? — Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where was the swan chillin' when he touched the water? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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 3 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

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Where was the swan chillin' when he touched the water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** swan chillin, he · **What happens:** be, touch · **To what, where:** water

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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/908-pg27200-part119/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t3:1
# text = Where was the swan chillin' when he touched the water?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	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	5	det	_	_
4	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chillin	chillin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the swan chillin |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **touch** | past | he | the water |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme |

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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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in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t3:o1:1
# text = in it
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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on the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t3:o2:1
# text = on the lake
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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by the reeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t3:o3:1
# text = by the reeds
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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on land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t3:o4:1
# text = on land
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	land	land	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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