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title: Was the North Pole just dead flat, or what? — The Magic City, The North Pole, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the North Pole just dead flat, or what? Test 9 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

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Was the North Pole just dead flat, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** North Pole · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t9:1
# text = Was the North Pole just dead flat, or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the North Pole |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | 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 {#o1}

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A huge mountain of snow with caves going down into it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t9:o1:1
# text = A huge mountain of snow with caves going down into it
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | gerund | a huge mountain of snow with caves |  |  | snow |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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No, it was a tall curved wall of ice like a giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t9:o2:1
# text = No, it was a tall curved wall of ice like a giant
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
| 2 | **is a** | past | it | a tall curved wall |  |  |  | of ice like a giant | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bowl like a frozen lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t9:o3:1
# text = A bowl like a frozen lake
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A pillar like a giant diamond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t9:o4:1
# text = A pillar like a giant diamond
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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