--- title: Did the second brother's ship actually float? — Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit… · tree and pragmatics description: Did the second brother's ship actually float? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1642-pg5615-part31/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1642-pg5615-part31/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K… Did the second brother's ship actually float? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ship · **What happens:** do, float · **To what, where:** ship This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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/1642-pg5615-part31/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t13:1 # text = Did the second brother's ship actually float? 1 Did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 7 actually actually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the second brother's ship | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Eventuality | | 2 | **float** | infinitive | the second brother's ship *not said here* | | | | | actually *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Nah, a fish ate it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t13:o1:1 # text = Nah, a fish ate it 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | a fish | it | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Nah, a gale smashed it on the rocks ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t13:o2:1 # text = Nah, a gale smashed it on the rocks 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 gale gale NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 smashed smash VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smash** | past | a gale | it | | the rocks | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on rock=Destination | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, it did ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t13:o3:1 # text = Yeah, it did 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | it | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Yeah, it sailed fine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t13:o4:1 # text = Yeah, it sailed fine 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | past | it | | | | | fine *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | **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. 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