--- title: What was the fountain held up by, proper? — Arabian Nights, The Young King of the… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the fountain held up by, proper? Test 11 · ★ 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; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/168-pg128-part8/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Arabian Nights, The Young King of the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/168-pg128-part8/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:… What was the fountain held up by, proper? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fountain · **What happens:** be, hold up · **To what, where:** fountain This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t11:1 # text = What was the fountain held up by, proper? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the fountain | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold up** | participle | | the fountain *not said here* | | | | by proper | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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} Lions ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t11:o1:1 # text = Lions 1 Lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Stone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t11:o2:1 # text = Stone 1 Stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Iron columns ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t11:o3:1 # text = Iron columns 1 Iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 columns column NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Golden lions ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:168-pg128-part8:t11:o4:1 # text = Golden lions 1 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: [Arabian Nights, The Young King of the…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/168-pg128-part8/t10/) - next →: [Arabian Nights, The Young King of the…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/168-pg128-part8/t12/) - ↑ back to [Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/168-pg128-part8/)