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title: In a cartoon, a pirate growls "Walk the plank, ye scallywag." ("Ye"… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questi… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, a pirate growls "Walk the plank, ye scallywag." ("Ye" is old "you", a scallywag is a rascal.) What kind of sentence is it? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 7 «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
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# Test 10 · ★ · Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, excla…

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In a cartoon, a pirate growls "Walk the plank, ye scallywag." ("Ye" is old "you", a scallywag is a rascal.) What kind of sentence is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pirate, Ye, scallywag · **What happens:** growl, walk, be · **To what, where:** cartoon, plank, rascal, kind

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 7 «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language 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/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a pirate growls "Walk the plank, ye scallywag."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:7-kinds-of-sentences:t10:1
# text = In a cartoon, a pirate growls "Walk the plank, ye scallywag."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	growls	growl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	compound	_	_
14	scallywag	scallywag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **growl** | present | a pirate |  |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | infinitive | a pirate *not said here* | the plank |  |  |  | ye scallywag *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=Trajectory |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* ("Ye" is old "you", a scallywag is a rascal.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:7-kinds-of-sentences:t10:2
# text = ("Ye" is old "you", a scallywag is a rascal.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scallywag	scallywag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rascal	rascal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ye |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a scallywag | a rascal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What kind of sentence is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:7-kinds-of-sentences:t10:3
# text = What kind of sentence is it?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | scallywag | what kind |  |  |  | of sentence | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A command

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:7-kinds-of-sentences:t10:o1:1
# text = A command
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A question

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:7-kinds-of-sentences:t10:o2:1
# text = A question
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	question	question	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 statement about planks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:7-kinds-of-sentences:t10:o3:1
# text = A statement about planks
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	planks	plank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An exclamation of joy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:7-kinds-of-sentences:t10:o4:1
# text = An exclamation of joy
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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