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title: who was the pilot on that boat then, like? — West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief,… · tree and pragmatics
description: who was the pilot on that boat then, like? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 5 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

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who was the pilot on that boat then, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pilot, boat

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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/1160-pg3027-part26/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t5:1
# text = who was the pilot on that boat then, like?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pilot	pilot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the pilot |  | that boat | then |  | 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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the lion cub, but only pretending tae be a sailor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t5:o1:1
# text = the lion cub, but only pretending tae be a sailor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	nsubj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund | the lion cub *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | tae | a sailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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the lion cub, pretending

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t5:o2:1
# text = the lion cub, pretending
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund | the lion cub *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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some hooded fella fae the witch's crew, ken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t5:o3:1
# text = some hooded fella fae the witch's crew, ken
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	hooded	hood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	fella	fella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	fae	fae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ken	ken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the auld armourer, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t5:o4:1
# text = the auld armourer, like
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	armourer	armourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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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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