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title: Mate, who was the ship's robber boss? — Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, who was the ship's robber boss? Test 12 · ★ 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 opt
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# Test 12 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

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Mate, who was the ship's robber boss?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** robber boss

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t12:1
# text = Mate, who was the ship's robber boss?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the ship's robber boss | the ship's robber boss |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ned the Bold Pirate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t12:o1:1
# text = Ned the Bold Pirate
1	Ned	Ned	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ralph the Rover, the mega pirate boss of the ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t12:o2:1
# text = Ralph the Rover, the mega pirate boss of the ship
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	mega	mega	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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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:t12: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 Black Tom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t12:o4:1
# text = Captain Black Tom
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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