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title: what kind of gem was on the ring, like a diamond? — Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: what kind of gem was on the ring, like a diamond? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1093 «Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is tried on every finger» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 6 · ★ · Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is…

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what kind of gem was on the ring, like a diamond?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kind · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ring

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1093 «Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is tried on every finger» 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/1093-pg29021-part18/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1093-pg29021-part18:t6:1
# text = what kind of gem was on the ring, like a diamond?
1	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | what kind of gem |  |  | the ring and a diamond |  |  | 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 ruby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1093-pg29021-part18:t6:o1:1
# text = a ruby
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a pearl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1093-pg29021-part18:t6:o2:1
# text = a pearl
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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an emerald

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1093-pg29021-part18:t6:o3:1
# text = an emerald
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a diamond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1093-pg29021-part18:t6:o4:1
# text = a diamond
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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