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title: What was her house made of, like? — Household Tales, The Youth and the Wit… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was her house made of, like? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1680 «Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: the birds lead him to the moonlit spring» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

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What was her house made of, like?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1680 «Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: the birds lead him to the moonlit spring» 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/1680-pg640-part4/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1680-pg640-part4:t12:1
# text = What was her house made of, like?
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	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	house	house	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	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	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 |  | her house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | her house *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Looked like gold and silver, mate.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1680-pg640-part4:t12:o1:1
# text = Looked like gold and silver, mate.
1	Looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like gold and silver and mate | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Looked like pure gold and silver all shining together, mate.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1680-pg640-part4:t12:o2:1
# text = Looked like pure gold and silver all shining together, mate.
1	Looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like pure gold and silver | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative*; all, together *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like wood, mate.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1680-pg640-part4:t12:o3:1
# text = Like wood, mate.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Looked like silver and glass, mate.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1680-pg640-part4:t12:o4:1
# text = Looked like silver and glass, mate.
1	Looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like silver and glass and mate | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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