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title: What was the collector like? — The Magic City, The Slide to the North… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the collector like? Test 5 · ★ 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 of the 
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# Test 5 · ★ · The Magic City, The Slide to the North Pole, part 12: Geor…

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What was the collector like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** collector · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t5:1
# text = What was the collector like?
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	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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 collector |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Dead grumpy and gutted, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t5:o1:1
# text = Dead grumpy and gutted, innit
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Grumpy, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t5:o2:1
# text = Grumpy, innit
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Proper cross and sulky, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t5:o3:1
# text = Proper cross and sulky, mate
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dead miserable, a right moaner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:644-pg23661-part12:t5:o4:1
# text = Dead miserable, a right moaner
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moaner	moaner	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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