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title: Was there stuff on that ship that could blow up? — Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was there stuff on that ship that could blow up? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning ship» 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 11 · ★ · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…

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Was there stuff on that ship that could blow up?

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

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning ship» 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/359-pg18442-part19/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t11:1
# text = Was there stuff on that ship that could blow up?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could · past | stuff |  |  | that ship; there |  | blow *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, there was powder down there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t11:o1:1
# text = Yeah, there was powder down there
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, gunpowder was in the hold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t11:o2:1
# text = Yeah, gunpowder was in the hold
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	gunpowder	gunpowder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | gunpowder |  |  | the hold |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, there was powder down there in the hold, enough to blow it all up

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t11:o3:1
# text = Yeah, there was powder down there in the hold, enough to blow it all up
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the hold |  | down, there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | to-infinitive |  | powder |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, there was loads of powder down there and cannon balls, all ready to blow

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:359-pg18442-part19:t11:o4:1
# text = Yeah, there was loads of powder down there and cannon balls, all ready to blow
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | cannon balls *obl*; down, there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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