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title: How were they tied up, like, with what? — The Magic City, The North Pole, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: How were they tied up, like, with what? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 7 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

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How were they tied up, like, with what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** tie up · **To what, where:** they

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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/645-pg23661-part13/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t7:1
# text = How were they tied up, like, with what?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | past · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with what=Co-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 {#o1}

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Chains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t7:o1:1
# text = Chains
1	Chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Ropes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t7:o2:1
# text = Ropes
1	Ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Snow-wreaths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t7:o3:1
# text = Snow-wreaths
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wreaths	wreath	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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Frozen vines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t7:o4:1
# text = Frozen vines
1	Frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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