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title: Ngl, what was the water on the walls a sign of, mate? — Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what was the water on the walls a sign of, mate? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ngl, what was the water on the walls a sign of, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** be, sign · **To what, where:** water, walls, mate

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» 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/1157-pg3027-part23/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t10:1
# text = Ngl, what was the water on the walls a sign of, mate?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ngl | the water |  | the walls |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | mate |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 magic spell cast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t10:o1:1
# text = a magic spell cast
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the ogre returning soon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t10:o2:1
# text = the ogre returning soon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | the ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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something going wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t10:o3:1
# text = something going wrong
1	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sign that the ogre had cursed the whole palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1157-pg3027-part23:t10:o4:1
# text = a sign that the ogre had cursed the whole palace
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | past · perfect · passive | a sign *not said here* | the ogre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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