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title: Was the castle a big fancy palace or what? — Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the castle a big fancy palace or what? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1660 «Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in the forest and made to carry a bundle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Was the castle a big fancy palace or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** castle

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1660 «Fairy Tales, Prince Souci, part 49: the king is robbed in the forest and made to carry a bundle» 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/1660-pg5615-part49/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1660-pg5615-part49:t12:1
# text = Was the castle a big fancy palace or what?
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	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the castle |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it were enormous, with marble halls and gold, but really just an ordinary house

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1660-pg5615-part49:t12:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it were enormous, with marble halls and gold, but really just an ordinary house
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with marble halls and gold; enormous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it were just an ordinary house, though the rooms inside were very grand

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1660-pg5615-part49:t12:o2:1
# text = Nah, it were just an ordinary house, though the rooms inside were very grand
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a ordinary house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the rooms |  |  |  |  | grand *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it were just an ordinary house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1660-pg5615-part49:t12:o3:1
# text = Nah, it were just an ordinary house
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a ordinary house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, a tidy little cottage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1660-pg5615-part49:t12:o4:1
# text = Nah, a tidy little cottage
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cottage	cottage	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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