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title: Wicked, what was the princess's cape made of? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what was the princess's cape made of? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

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Wicked, what was the princess's cape made of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** Wicked cape

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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/1008-pg27200-part219/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t7:1
# text = Wicked, what was the princess's cape made of?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the princess's Wicked cape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the princess's Wicked cape *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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 {#o1}

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The finest silk brought from the eastern islands across the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t7:o1:1
# text = The finest silk brought from the eastern islands across the sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | participle |  | the finest silk *not said here* |  | the eastern islands |  | across the sea | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from island=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Thousands of butterfly wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t7:o2:1
# text = Thousands of butterfly wings
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Thousands of butterfly wings stitched together with golden thread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t7:o3:1
# text = Thousands of butterfly wings stitched together with golden thread
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	stitched	stitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stitch together** | participle |  | butterfly wings *not said here* |  |  |  | with golden thread; together *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Embroidered velvet and gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t7:o4:1
# text = Embroidered velvet and gold
1	Embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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