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title: Match the pun: «Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography». Which… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Match the pun: «Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography». Which real school subjects are hidden here? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's…

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Match the pun: «Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography». Which real school subjects are hidden here?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** match, hide · **To what, where:** pun, real school subjects

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» 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/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Match the pun: «Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t8:1
# text = Match the pun: «Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography».
1	Match	match	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pun	pun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Seaography	seaography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **match** | imperative | you *not said here* | the pun |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pun=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which real school subjects are hidden here?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t8:2
# text = Which real school subjects are hidden here?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present · passive |  | real school subjects |  | here |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Geometry and biology

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t8:o1:1
# text = Geometry and biology
1	Geometry	geometry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	biology	biology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mystery and arithmetic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t8:o2:1
# text = Mystery and arithmetic
1	Mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	arithmetic	arithmetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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History and geography

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t8:o3:1
# text = History and geography
1	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography, and also Drawling and Stretching

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2:t8:o4:1
# text = Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography, and also Drawling and Stretching
1	Mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Seaography	seaography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	Drawling	Drawling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Stretching	Stretching	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
```

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

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