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title: What was the palace made of, wicked? — Arabian Nights, The Young King of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the palace made of, wicked? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» 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 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

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What was the palace made of, wicked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** palace

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» 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/168-pg128-part8/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t10:1
# text = What was the palace made of, wicked?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the palace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the palace *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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Plain wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t10:o1:1
# text = Plain wood
1	Plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wood	wood	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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Green glass tiles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t10:o2:1
# text = Green glass tiles
1	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Black polished marble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t10:o3:1
# text = Black polished marble
1	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	polished	polish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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White carved stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t10:o4:1
# text = White carved stone
1	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carved	carve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | past | White | stone |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

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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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