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title: wait, did a boy write that Casabianca poem? — Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, did a boy write that Casabianca poem? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 13 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

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wait, did a boy write that Casabianca poem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, boy · **What happens:** wait, write · **To what, where:** Casabianca poem

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» 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/360-pg18442-part20/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t13:1
# text = wait, did a boy write that Casabianca poem?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Casabianca	Casabianca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | past · do-support | a boy | Casabianca poem |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, Mrs. Hemans wrote it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t13:o1:1
# text = No, Mrs. Hemans wrote it
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Hemans	Heman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Mrs. Hemans | it |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, Mrs. Hemans wrote it, a famous English poet of the early 1800s

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t13:o2:1
# text = No, Mrs. Hemans wrote it, a famous English poet of the early 1800s
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Hemans	Heman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Mrs. Hemans | it |  |  |  | a famous English poet of the early 1800s *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, a boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t13:o3:1
# text = Yes, a boy
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, Mr. Scott wrote it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t13:o4:1
# text = No, Mr. Scott wrote it
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Scott	Scott	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Scott  Mr. | it |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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