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title: Yo, who was the mega pirate who nicked the bell? — Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who was the mega pirate who nicked the bell? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 1 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

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Yo, who was the mega pirate who nicked the bell?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mega pirate · **What happens:** be, nick · **To what, where:** mega pirate, bell

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 357 «Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the abbot's buoy bell and his own ship is wrecked on the rock» 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/357-pg18442-part17/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t1:1
# text = Yo, who was the mega pirate who nicked the bell?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mega	megapixel	X	AFX	_	7	compound	_	_
7	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the mega pirate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | past | the mega pirate | the bell |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient |

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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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Ralph lad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t1:o1:1
# text = Ralph lad
1	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Old Tom the Robber

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t1:o2:1
# text = Old Tom the Robber
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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Ralph the Rover

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t1:o3:1
# text = Ralph the Rover
1	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Rover	Rover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Captain Gray, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t1:o4:1
# text = Captain Gray, mate
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Gray	Gray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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