Test 12 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…

What were they hunting for, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: hunt

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hunting	obj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunting	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunting	nsubj
4	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 then	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 for	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hunting	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hunting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	they						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Location for then=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Butterflies, obviously, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Butterflies	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Butterflies	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Butterflies	conj

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

Option 2

The Pole, obviously, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pole	det
2	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pole	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 Pole	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pole	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 Pole	discourse

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The North Pole, obviously, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pole	det
2	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pole	compound
3	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Pole	punct
5	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	3 Pole	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Pole	conj

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

Option 4

The Pole, the big one, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pole	det
2	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pole	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pole	punct
8	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 Pole	advmod

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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