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title: What's vellum, mate? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's vellum, mate? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

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What's vellum, mate?

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

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» 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/1067-pg2892-part35/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t9:1
# text = What's vellum, mate?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	vellum	vellum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | vellum and mate |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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a sort of thin paper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t9:o1:1
# text = a sort of thin paper
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** |  |  | thin paper |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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

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calfskin for writing on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t9:o2:1
# text = calfskin for writing on
1	calfskin	calfskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a fine cloth woven from wool that monks use to bind their books

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t9:o3:1
# text = a fine cloth woven from wool that monks use to bind their books
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | participle |  | a fine cloth *not said here* |  | wool |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wool=Trajectory |
| 2 | **use** | present | monks | a fine cloth |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **bind** | to-infinitive | monks *not said here* | monks's books |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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paper made from reeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t9:o4:1
# text = paper made from reeds
1	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | paper *not said here* |  | reeds |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from reed=Material |

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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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