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title: Sus, what came down over the sea in the evening? — Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sus, what came down over the sea in the evening? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Book of Tales, The Inchcape Rock: Ralph the Rover cuts the…

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Sus, what came down over the sea in the evening?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sus · **What happens:** come down · **To what, where:** sea

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t8:1
# text = Sus, what came down over the sea in the evening?
1	Sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | Sus |  |  | the sea | evening | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial\_Location |

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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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Snow, proper cold, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t8:o1:1
# text = Snow, proper cold, yeah
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mist, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t8:o2:1
# text = Mist, yeah
1	Mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Thick grey fog, can't see nothing, proper scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t8:o3:1
# text = Thick grey fog, can't see nothing, proper scary
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | Thick grey fog *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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

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Thick fog, can't see

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:357-pg18442-part17:t8:o4:1
# text = Thick fog, can't see
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | Thick fog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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