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title: Was the glass made of ivory or plastic? — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the glass made of ivory or plastic? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

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Was the glass made of ivory or plastic?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** glass

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» 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/1494-pg503-part81/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:t12:1
# text = Was the glass made of ivory or plastic?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the glass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the glass *not said here* |  |  |  | of ivory or plastic | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Ivory

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:t12:o1:1
# text = Ivory
1	Ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:t12:o2:1
# text = Glass
1	Glass	glass	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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Marble and gold inlaid stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:t12:o3:1
# text = Marble and gold inlaid stone
1	Marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	inlaid	inlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inlay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ebony wood carved finely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:t12:o4:1
# text = Ebony wood carved finely
1	Ebony	ebony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  | Ebony wood *not said here* |  |  |  | finely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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