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title: did the castle go down with them on board? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the castle go down with them on board? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

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did the castle go down with them on board?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** castle · **What happens:** go down · **To what, where:** board

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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/1955-pg7439-part14/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t10:1
# text = did the castle go down with them on board?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past · do-support | the castle |  |  | board |  | with them *= they*; down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location |

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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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Nah, it sailed away quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t10:o1:1
# text = Nah, it sailed away quickly
1	Nah	nah	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	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail away** | past | it |  |  |  |  | away, quickly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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

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Nah, it flew off at full speed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t10:o2:1
# text = Nah, it flew off at full speed
1	Nah	nah	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	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nah, it flew off at full speed without them on board

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t10:o3:1
# text = Nah, it flew off at full speed without them on board
1	Nah	nah	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	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly off** | past | it |  |  | full speed |  | without them *= they*; on board | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nah, it flew off at full speed and left the frog behind in the sea

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1955-pg7439-part14:t10:o4:1
# text = Nah, it flew off at full speed and left the frog behind in the sea
1	Nah	nah	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	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly off** | past | it |  |  | full speed |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
| 2 | **leave** | past |  | the frog |  | the sea |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent frog=Theme in sea=Location |

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