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title: Yo, how far did the boat go? — Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how far did the boat go? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

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Yo, how far did the boat go?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** go

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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/1576-pg540-part73/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t12:1
# text = Yo, how far did the boat go?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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three days out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t12:o1:1
# text = three days out
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a long, long way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t12:o2:1
# text = a long, long way
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t12:o3:1
# text = miles
1	miles	mile	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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over the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t12:o4:1
# text = over the sea
1	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	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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