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title: Wait, what was in the water, the fish or the eels? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what was in the water, the fish or the eels? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: th…

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Wait, what was in the water, the fish or the eels?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** water

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» 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/935-pg27200-part146/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t13:1
# text = Wait, what was in the water, the fish or the eels?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the water and the fish or the eels |  |  | 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}

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golden fish with silver fins swimming in the clear blue water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t13:o1:1
# text = golden fish with silver fins swimming in the clear blue water
1	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund | silver fins *not said here* |  |  | the clear blue water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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many gold and silver fish swimming among the eels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t13:o2:1
# text = many gold and silver fish swimming among the eels
1	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund | many gold fish *not said here* |  |  | the eels |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among eel=Trajectory |

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

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gold and silver fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t13:o3:1
# text = gold and silver fish
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	fish	fish	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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red and white fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:t13:o4:1
# text = red and white fish
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	fish	fish	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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