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title: What were they hunting up in Old Bergen? — More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of… · tree and pragmatics
description: What were they hunting up in Old Bergen? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1159 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manus is cheated of his share and is offered a sword» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 8 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manu…

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What were they hunting up in Old Bergen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** hunt up · **To what, where:** Old Bergen

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1159 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manus is cheated of his share and is offered a sword» 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/1159-pg3027-part25/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t8:1
# text = What were they hunting up in Old Bergen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Bergen	Bergen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt up** | past · progressive | they |  |  | Old Bergen |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme in bergen=Location |

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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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elk, like proper fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t8:o1:1
# text = elk, like proper fast
1	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
reindeer, like proper big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t8:o2:1
# text = reindeer, like proper big
1	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
reindeer, like proper fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t8:o3:1
# text = reindeer, like proper fast
1	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
reindeer, like proper fast, all day long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t8:o4:1
# text = reindeer, like proper fast, all day long
1	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

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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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