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title: What was on the hedges and gates, like, all over? — The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was on the hedges and gates, like, all over? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 643 «The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Jane sneak out to see the Northern Lights and set off across the snowy fields toward the North Pole.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Ja…

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What was on the hedges and gates, like, all over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hedges

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 643 «The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Jane sneak out to see the Northern Lights and set off across the snowy fields toward the North Pole.» 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/643-pg23661-part11/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t11:1
# text = What was on the hedges and gates, like, all over?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the hedges and gates |  |  | 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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Really long hanging icicles all over the place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t11:o1:1
# text = Really long hanging icicles all over the place
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
3	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
4	icicles	icicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | gerund |  | icicles |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent icicle=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Massive icicles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t11:o2:1
# text = Massive icicles
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	icicles	icicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Frozen cobwebs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t11:o3:1
# text = Frozen cobwebs
1	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cobwebs	cobweb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Huge sparkling icicles dripping from every single branch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:643-pg23661-part11:t11:o4:1
# text = Huge sparkling icicles dripping from every single branch
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	icicles	icicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drip** | gerund | Huge sparkling icicles *not said here* |  |  | every single branch |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from branch=Source |

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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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