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title: Yeah, what did the old abbot do about sailors dying? — Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeah, what did the old abbot do about sailors dying? Test 13 · ★ 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 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

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Yeah, what did the old abbot do about sailors dying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old abbot, sailors · **What happens:** do, die

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t13:1
# text = Yeah, what did the old abbot do about sailors dying?
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	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	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	abbot	abbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the old abbot |  |  |  |  | about sailors | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | gerund | sailors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Put a big bell on a buoy out at sea, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t13:o1:1
# text = Put a big bell on a buoy out at sea, yeah
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	buoy	buoy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | imperative | you *not said here* | a big bell |  | a buoy |  | at sea | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme on buoy=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Put a bell on a buoy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t13:o2:1
# text = Put a bell on a buoy
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	buoy	buoy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | a bell |  | a buoy |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme on buoy=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hired a rowing crew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t13:o3:1
# text = Hired a rowing crew
1	Hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rowing	rowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | past |  | a rowing crew |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Built a tall church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t13:o4:1
# text = Built a tall church
1	Built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past |  | a tall church |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset church=Product |

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