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title: Skive off, what tricked the captain's course? — Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Skive off, what tricked the captain's course? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 10 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre…

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Skive off, what tricked the captain's course?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** skive off, trick · **To what, where:** course

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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/698-pg2435-part38/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t10:1
# text = Skive off, what tricked the captain's course?
1	Skive	skive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tricked	trick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	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 | **skive off** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trick** | past |  | the captain's course |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient |

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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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a dark cloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t10:o1:1
# text = a dark cloud
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t10:o2:1
# text = the moon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a thick fog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t10:o3:1
# text = a thick fog
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a grey sea mist rolling in from the east

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t10:o4:1
# text = a grey sea mist rolling in from the east
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll in** | gerund | a grey sea mist *not said here* |  |  | the east |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from east=Trajectory |

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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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