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title: mid or what, was the hunter any good at fishing? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter… · tree and pragmatics
description: mid or what, was the hunter any good at fishing? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1365 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

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mid or what, was the hunter any good at fishing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mid hunter

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1365 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost» 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/1365-pg4018-part25/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t11:1
# text = mid or what, was the hunter any good at fishing?
1	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	7	compound	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the mid hunter |  |  |  |  | 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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yes, a fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t11:o1:1
# text = yes, a fine
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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no

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t11:o2:1
# text = no
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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no, a bungling fisher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t11:o3:1
# text = no, a bungling fisher
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bungling	bungling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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no, a clumsy fisher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t11:o4:1
# text = no, a clumsy fisher
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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