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title: Bruv, did the storm sink the whole fleet? — Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, did the storm sink the whole fleet? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» 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 ri
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# Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

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Bruv, did the storm sink the whole fleet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** storm · **What happens:** sink · **To what, where:** whole fleet

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» 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/1034-pg2892-part2/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t12:1
# text = Bruv, did the storm sink the whole fleet?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past · do-support | the storm | the whole fleet |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fleet=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Nah, a huge wave flipped and sank the whole lot of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t12:o1:1
# text = Nah, a huge wave flipped and sank the whole lot of them
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	flipped	flip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
8	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flip** | participle |  | a huge wave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sink** | past | a huge wave | the whole lot of them |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, the whole fleet went down in the big storm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t12:o2:1
# text = Yeah, the whole fleet went down in the big storm
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | the whole fleet |  |  |  |  | in the big storm; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in storm=Attribute |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a wave sank a ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t12:o3:1
# text = Yeah, a wave sank a ship
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | a wave | a ship |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they all survived

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1034-pg2892-part2:t12:o4:1
# text = Nah, they all survived
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
5	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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