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title: Ngl, what made the palace walls look so pretty? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what made the palace walls look so pretty? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1175 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: the prince wins back Desiree, and the idle girl turns into a fish under the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 6 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: th…

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Ngl, what made the palace walls look so pretty?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** palace walls · **What happens:** make, look

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1175 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: the prince wins back Desiree, and the idle girl turns into a fish under the sea» 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/1175-pg3027-part41/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t6:1
# text = Ngl, what made the palace walls look so pretty?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | the palace walls |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Shells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t6:o1:1
# text = Shells
1	Shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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White marble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t6:o2:1
# text = White marble
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	marble	marble	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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Pearl stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t6:o3:1
# text = Pearl stone
1	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Pink coral

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t6:o4:1
# text = Pink coral
1	Pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	coral	coral	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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