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title: Real talk, what ended Ralph's ship? — Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what ended Ralph's ship? Test 10 · ★ 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 of each optio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

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Real talk, what ended Ralph's ship?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ship

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t10:1
# text = Real talk, what ended Ralph's ship?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Real talk and Ralph's ship | Ralph'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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Smashing into the rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t10:o1:1
# text = Smashing into the rock
1	Smashing	smash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into the rock *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into rock=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Smashing into the rock in the fog, proper bad luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t10:o2:1
# text = Smashing into the rock in the fog, proper bad luck
1	Smashing	smash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into the rock *result*; in the fog and proper bad luck | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into rock=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Crashing into a wave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t10:o3:1
# text = Crashing into a wave
1	Crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into a wave *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into wave=Result |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Hitting the rock, going down, mate, proper dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t10:o4:1
# text = Hitting the rock, going down, mate, proper dead
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | gerund |  | the rock |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **go down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative*; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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