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title: Ok, what did the sailors shout, hammer or sea? — Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok, what did the sailors shout, hammer or sea? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

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Ok, what did the sailors shout, hammer or sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sailors · **What happens:** do, shout · **To what, where:** hammer

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» 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/175-pg128-part15/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t14:1
# text = Ok, what did the sailors shout, hammer or sea?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	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	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	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 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the sailors | hammer or sea |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Topic |

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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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Only the word hammer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t14:o1:1
# text = Only the word hammer
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Both ideas were shouted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t14:o2:1
# text = Both ideas were shouted
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past · passive |  | both ideas |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hammer was the cry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t14:o3:1
# text = Hammer was the cry
1	Hammer	Hammer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Hammer | the cry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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They shouted to throw him overboard and to hammer him into the mast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:175-pg128-part15:t14:o4:1
# text = They shouted to throw him overboard and to hammer him into the mast
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hammer	hammer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **throw** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | overboard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **hammer** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | into the mast *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into mast=Result |

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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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