--- title: Was the ship, like, a proper luxury boat, or a boring old tub? — Andersen's Tales, A Story from the San… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the ship, like, a proper luxury boat, or a boring old tub? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 961 «Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a young Spanish couple sails toward Russia, but calm weather and then a storm blow their ship north» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/961-pg27200-part172/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Tales, A Story from the San…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/961-pg27200-part172/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y… Was the ship, like, a proper luxury boat, or a boring old tub? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ship This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 961 «Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a young Spanish couple sails toward Russia, but calm weather and then a storm blow their ship north» 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/961-pg27200-part172/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t6:1 # text = Was the ship, like, a proper luxury boat, or a boring old tub? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 like like INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 luxury luxury ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 tub tub NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the ship | | | | | tree rules | 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} rough wood and tar, proper basic ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t6:o1:1 # text = rough wood and tar, proper basic 1 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 tar tar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 basic basic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} all silk and luxury, mad fancy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t6:o2:1 # text = all silk and luxury, mad fancy 1 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 luxury luxury NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} plain and cheap ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t6:o3:1 # text = plain and cheap 1 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a tub, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t6:o4:1 # text = a tub, bruv 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tub tub NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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