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title: Wait, which ship was grandpa actually on? — Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, which ship was grandpa actually on? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 848 «Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his wooden Holger and tells of the Danish arms, while Holger dreams on» 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 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his w…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wait, which ship was grandpa actually on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, ship · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** grandpa

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 848 «Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his wooden Holger and tells of the Danish arms, while Holger dreams on» 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/848-pg27200-part59/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t4:1
# text = Wait, which ship was grandpa actually on?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	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 | **is a** | past | which ship | grandpa |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the great royal warship that sailed out of Copenhagen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t4:o1:1
# text = the great royal warship that sailed out of Copenhagen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	warship	warship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | the great royal warship |  |  | Copenhagen |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out copenhagen=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Denmark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t4:o2:1
# text = the Denmark
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the flagship of the Danish navy in the second battle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t4:o3:1
# text = the flagship of the Danish navy in the second battle
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flagship	flagship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	navy	navy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Victory

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t4:o4:1
# text = the Victory
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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