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title: Ngl, what did the crew do when the wind picked up? — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the crew do when the wind picked up? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C…

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Ngl, what did the crew do when the wind picked up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** do, pick up · **To what, where:** crew, wind

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» 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/2047-pg976-part6/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t10:1
# text = Ngl, what did the crew do when the wind picked up?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	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	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	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 | Ngl | the crew |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | Ngl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pick up** | participle |  | the wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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lowered the mast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t10:o1:1
# text = lowered the mast
1	lowered	lower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lower** | past |  | the mast |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mast=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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dropped anchor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t10:o2:1
# text = dropped anchor
1	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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rowed hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t10:o3:1
# text = rowed hard
1	rowed	row	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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trimmed the sails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t10:o4:1
# text = trimmed the sails
1	trimmed	trim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trim** | past |  | the sails |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=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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