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title: what was the world like while they hid? — Myths and Legends of China, The Empres… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the world like while they hid? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what was the world like while they hid?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** world, they · **What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** world

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» 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/1387-pg4018-part47/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t6:1
# text = what was the world like while they hid?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the world |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | past | they | the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pitch black day and night, total darkness, and everyone was scared to go outside

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t6:o1:1
# text = Pitch black day and night, total darkness, and everyone was scared to go outside
1	Pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sort of gloomy most of the time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t6:o2:1
# text = Sort of gloomy most of the time
1	Sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pitch black day and night, total darkness everywhere, with people stuck in their homes

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t6:o3:1
# text = Pitch black day and night, total darkness everywhere, with people stuck in their homes
1	Pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
13	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pitch black day and night, total darkness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t6:o4:1
# text = Pitch black day and night, total darkness
1	Pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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