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title: Gutted, how far out was the rock from land? — Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gutted, how far out was the rock from land? Test 5 · ★ 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 eac
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# Test 5 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

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Gutted, how far out was the rock from land?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** gut, be · **To what, where:** rock

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t5:1
# text = Gutted, how far out was the rock from land?
1	Gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle · passive |  | the rock from land |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | far, out *property* | 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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Right out at sea, a good twelve miles from the coast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t5:o1:1
# text = Right out at sea, a good twelve miles from the coast
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Twenty miles out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t5:o2:1
# text = Twenty miles out
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve miles out, right in the open sea, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t5:o3:1
# text = Twelve miles out, right in the open sea, bruv
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Twelve miles out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t5:o4:1
# text = Twelve miles out
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

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