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title: Dead serious, what's the mint stuff in the castle? Copper, silver or… — Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead serious, what's the mint stuff in the castle? Copper, silver or gold? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1166 «Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part 1: three brothers find a castle of money, and Jack gets the last word» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
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# Test 12 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part…

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Dead serious, what's the mint stuff in the castle? Copper, silver or gold?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1166 «Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part 1: three brothers find a castle of money, and Jack gets the last word» 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/1166-pg3027-part32/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dead serious, what's the mint stuff in the castle?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t12:1
# text = Dead serious, what's the mint stuff in the castle?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mint	mint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the mint stuff |  | the castle |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Copper, silver or gold?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t12:2
# text = Copper, silver or gold?
1	Copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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tin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t12:o1:1
# text = tin
1	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t12:o2:1
# text = gold
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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lead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t12:o3:1
# text = lead
1	lead	lead	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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silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1166-pg3027-part32:t12:o4:1
# text = silver
1	silver	silver	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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