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title: Real talk, what did the sailors use the oak for? — Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what did the sailors use the oak for? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t…

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Real talk, what did the sailors use the oak for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sailors · **What happens:** do, use · **To what, where:** Real talk, oak

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» 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/866-pg27200-part77/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t11:1
# text = Real talk, what did the sailors use the oak for?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Real talk |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality |
| 2 | **use** | present | the sailors | the oak |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=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 {#o1}

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a harbour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t11:o1:1
# text = a harbour
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a landmark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t11:o2:1
# text = a landmark
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landmark	landmark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a map

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t11:o3:1
# text = a map
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t11:o4:1
# text = a ship
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	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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