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title: Mate, what was the fairy house like inside? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what was the fairy house like inside? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1343 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the old man finds the sparrow, who is really a fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…

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Mate, what was the fairy house like inside?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fairy house

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1343 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the old man finds the sparrow, who is really a fairy» 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/1343-pg4018-part3/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t7:1
# text = Mate, what was the fairy house like inside?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the fairy house | the fairy house |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Whitest polished wood with silky cushions and a golden altar in the corner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t7:o1:1
# text = Whitest polished wood with silky cushions and a golden altar in the corner
1	Whitest	white	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	silky	silky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pale stone and golden thread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t7:o2:1
# text = Pale stone and golden thread
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Whitest wood and silky cushions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t7:o3:1
# text = Whitest wood and silky cushions
1	Whitest	white	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	silky	silky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dark wood walls hung with lanterns and many rich silk cushions for guests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1343-pg4018-part3:t7:o4:1
# text = Dark wood walls hung with lanterns and many rich silk cushions for guests
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | participle |  | Dark wood walls *not said here* |  |  |  | with lanterns and many rich silk cushions; for guests | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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