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title: so like, what were the dudes even fishing for down the pool? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young f… · tree and pragmatics
description: so like, what were the dudes even fishing for down the pool? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Test 1 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

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so like, what were the dudes even fishing for down the pool?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** fish

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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/1213-pg3282-part14/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t1:1
# text = so like, what were the dudes even fishing for down the pool?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dudes	dude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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

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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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crabs and worms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t1:o1:1
# text = crabs and worms
1	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
eels and stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t1:o2:1
# text = eels and stuff
1	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a big pile of mud and river weed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t1:o3:1
# text = a big pile of mud and river weed
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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huge catfish and the odd turtle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t1:o4:1
# text = huge catfish and the odd turtle
1	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	catfish	catfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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