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title: some guy online says hillary climbed everest alone. what's fair? — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: some guy online says hillary climbed everest alone. what's fair? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

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some guy online says hillary climbed everest alone. what's fair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** guy, hillary · **What happens:** say, climb, be · **To what, where:** everest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history 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/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t7:1
# text = some guy online says hillary climbed everest alone. what's fair?
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	online	online	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hillary	hillary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	everest	everest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some guy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **climb** | past | hillary | everest |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location everest=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *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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He flew to the top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t7:o1:1
# text = He flew to the top
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | He |  |  |  |  | to the top *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, completely alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t7:o2:1
# text = Yes, completely alone
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cook climbed it first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t7:o3:1
# text = Cook climbed it first
1	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | Cook | it |  |  |  | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He climbed it with Tenzing Norgay from Nepal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t7:o4:1
# text = He climbed it with Tenzing Norgay from Nepal
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Tenzing	Tenzing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	Norgay	Norgay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | He | it |  | Nepal |  | with Tenzing | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient it=Extent from nepal=Initial\_State |

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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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