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title: Yo, what did the servants send out on the ship? — pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the servants send out on the ship? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» 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 6 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

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Yo, what did the servants send out on the ship?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** servants · **What happens:** do, send out · **To what, where:** ship

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» 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/1462-pg503-part49/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t6:1
# text = Yo, what did the servants send out on the ship?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send out** | present | the servants |  |  | the ship |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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Things to sell at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t6:o1:1
# text = Things to sell at sea
1	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | to-infinitive | Things |  |  | sea |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at sea=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Their own cargo of cloth and trinkets for the far-off trading ports

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t6:o2:1
# text = Their own cargo of cloth and trinkets for the far-off trading ports
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	trinkets	trinket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Goods to trade abroad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t6:o3:1
# text = Goods to trade abroad
1	Goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	trade	trade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trade** | to-infinitive | Goods |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stuff to try their luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t6:o4:1
# text = Stuff to try their luck
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | to-infinitive |  | their luck |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |

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