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title: «mate reckons lighthouses still have lonely keepers living in them»… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics
description: «mate reckons lighthouses still have lonely keepers living in them» What is true for British lighthouses? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 9 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines

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«mate reckons lighthouses still have lonely keepers living in them» What is true for British lighthouses?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, lighthouses, lonely keepers · **What happens:** reckon, have, live, be · **To what, where:** lonely keepers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology 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/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t9:1
# text = «mate reckons lighthouses still have lonely keepers living in them» What is true for British lighthouses?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lighthouses	lighthouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lighthouses	lighthouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** *in a quote* | present | mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | lighthouses | lonely keepers |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Patient |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | gerund | lonely keepers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in lighthouses *= lighthouse* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for British lighthouses; true *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 {#o1}

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Every one has a keeper and a cat living in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t9:o1:1
# text = Every one has a keeper and a cat living in it
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every one | a keeper and a cat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | a keeper and a cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in cat | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are all run by the RNLI's volunteers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t9:o2:1
# text = They are all run by the RNLI's volunteers
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	RNLI	RNLI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present · passive | the RNLI's volunteers | They |  |  |  | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They now run automatically, without keepers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t9:o3:1
# text = They now run automatically, without keepers
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	automatically	automatically	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | They |  |  |  | now | without keepers; automatically *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They are only switched on at Christmas time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t9:o4:1
# text = They are only switched on at Christmas time
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch on** | present · passive |  | They |  |  | time |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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