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title: Where did the lad land his ship, like? — English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the lad land his ship, like? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

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Where did the lad land his ship, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lad · **What happens:** be, lan · **To what, where:** ship

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» 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/1970-pg7439-part29/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t10:1
# text = Where did the lad land his ship, like?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	land	lan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lan** | past | the lad | lad's ship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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In the sheltered creek beneath Bamburgh Castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t10:o1:1
# text = In the sheltered creek beneath Bamburgh Castle
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Bamburgh	Bamburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shelter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The beach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t10:o2:1
# text = The beach
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Budle Creek

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t10:o3:1
# text = Budle Creek
1	Budle	Budle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Creek	Creek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bamburgh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t10:o4:1
# text = Bamburgh
1	Bamburgh	Bamburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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