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title: So what was the fishing trip's spot? — Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kab… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what was the fishing trip's spot? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» of the books 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 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is sw…

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So what was the fishing trip's spot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** spot · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» 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/1231-pg3282-part32/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t12:1
# text = So what was the fishing trip's spot?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the fishing trip's spot |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Islands a few miles north past the big reef

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t12:o1:1
# text = Islands a few miles north past the big reef
1	Islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	north	north	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	past	past	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Islands a few miles north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t12:o2:1
# text = Islands a few miles north
1	Islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	north	north	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The north coast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t12:o3:1
# text = The north coast
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Islands a few miles north of the old village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t12:o4:1
# text = Islands a few miles north of the old village
1	Islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	north	north	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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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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