--- title: What were they hunting for, then? — The Magic City, The Slide to the North… · tree and pragmatics description: What were they hunting for, then? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/644-pg23661-part12/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Magic City, The Slide to the North…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/644-pg23661-part12/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor… What were they hunting for, then? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** hunt This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 644 «The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: George and Jane race down a great ice slide and meet a sportsman, a collector and a white grouse» 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/644-pg23661-part12/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t12:1 # text = What were they hunting for, then? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | past · progressive | they | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Location for then=Theme | 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} Butterflies, obviously, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t12:o1:1 # text = Butterflies, obviously, mate 1 Butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 obviously obviously ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Pole, obviously, innit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t12:o2:1 # text = The Pole, obviously, innit 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 obviously obviously ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 innit innit INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The North Pole, obviously, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t12:o3:1 # text = The North Pole, obviously, mate 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 obviously obviously ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Pole, the big one, obviously ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t12:o4:1 # text = The Pole, the big one, obviously 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 obviously obviously ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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