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title: Wait, what was the chair she sat in made of? — Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what was the chair she sat in made of? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 2 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride…

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Wait, what was the chair she sat in made of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, she · **What happens:** wait, be, sit, make · **To what, where:** chair

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» 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/1454-pg503-part41/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t2:1
# text = Wait, what was the chair she sat in made of?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the chair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | past | she | the chair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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Crystal, proper dead shiny and see-through

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t2:o1:1
# text = Crystal, proper dead shiny and see-through
1	Crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	see	see	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	through	thorough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Solid crystal, dead shiny like ice, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t2:o2:1
# text = Solid crystal, dead shiny like ice, mate
1	Solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Crystal, dead shiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t2:o3:1
# text = Crystal, dead shiny
1	Crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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, dead shiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t2:o4:1
# text = Silver, dead shiny
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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