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title: Mate, how did the boat get there so fast, like? — Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how did the boat get there so fast, like? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the r…

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Mate, how did the boat get there so fast, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** boat

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» 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/1895-pg7277-part32/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t6:1
# text = Mate, how did the boat get there so fast, like?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | present | Mate |  |  | there |  | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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fairy winds did it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t6:o1:1
# text = fairy winds did it
1	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fairy winds | it |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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fairy winds did it, the ship just flew over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t6:o2:1
# text = fairy winds did it, the ship just flew over
1	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly over** | past | fairy winds | the ship |  |  |  | over *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the wind was strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t6:o3:1
# text = the wind was strong
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the fairy winds blew them across the whole sea in one single night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t6:o4:1
# text = the fairy winds blew them across the whole sea in one single night
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the fairy winds | them *= they* |  | the whole sea | night |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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