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title: Mate, what did the ship do every time he jumped? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the ship do every time he jumped? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

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Mate, what did the ship do every time he jumped?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, jump · **To what, where:** ship, time

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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/1917-pg7277-part54/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t11:1
# text = Mate, what did the ship do every time he jumped?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	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	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | the ship |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | Mate |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **jump** | past | Mate | every time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Trajectory |

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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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Sank like a stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t11:o1:1
# text = Sank like a stone
1	Sank	Sank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Floated off away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t11:o2:1
# text = Floated off away
1	Floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Stayed under his feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t11:o3:1
# text = Stayed under his feet
1	Stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past |  |  |  | his feet |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Flew up in the sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t11:o4:1
# text = Flew up in the sky
1	Flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly up** | past |  |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |

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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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