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title: Real talk, who sailed off saying the sky is above him everywhere? — Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of H… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, who sailed off saying the sky is above him everywhere? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…

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Real talk, who sailed off saying the sky is above him everywhere?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** sail off, say, be · **To what, where:** sky · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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/999-pg27200-part210/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t8:1
# text = Real talk, who sailed off saying the sky is above him everywhere?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail off** | past | Real talk |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Real talk *not said here* | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sky=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | above him *= he*; everywhere *property* | 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}

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The astronomer who moved to Prague for the emperor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t8:o1:1
# text = The astronomer who moved to Prague for the emperor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	astronomer	astronomer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Prague	Prague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | the astronomer |  | Prague |  |  | for the emperor | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prague=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Copernicus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t8:o2:1
# text = Copernicus
1	Copernicus	copernicus	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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The Danish guy who left for Prague

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t8:o3:1
# text = The Danish guy who left for Prague
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Danish	danish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Prague	Prague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the Danish guy |  |  |  |  | for Prague | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for prague=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Tycho Brahe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:t8:o4:1
# text = Tycho Brahe
1	Tycho	Tycho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Brahe	Brahe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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