---
title: Of what materials were the crowns to be procured in equal measure by… — Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of what materials were the crowns to be procured in equal measure by the smith? Exam question 4 of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1293-pg3454-part18/e4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1293-pg3454-part18/) / e4

# Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Of what materials were the crowns to be procured in equal measure by the smith?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** materials, smith · **What happens:** be, procure · **To what, where:** crowns, equal measure

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1293-pg3454-part18/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e4:1
# text = Of what materials were the crowns to be procured in equal measure by the smith?
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	procured	procure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | materials | the crowns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **procure** | to-infinitive · passive | the smith |  |  | equal measure |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gold, silver and copper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e4:o1:1
# text = Gold, silver and copper
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Iron and tin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e4:o2:1
# text = Iron and tin
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gold, bronze and tin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e4:o3:1
# text = Gold, bronze and tin
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gold only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e4:o4:1
# text = Gold only
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part…, exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1293-pg3454-part18/e3/)
- next →: [More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of…, test 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1294-pg3454-part19/t1/)
- ↑ back to [Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1293-pg3454-part18/)