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title: What was the big forest made of, innit? — The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the big forest made of, innit? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…

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What was the big forest made of, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, make, innit · **To what, where:** big forest

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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/1689-pg640-part13/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t9:1
# text = What was the big forest made of, innit?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the big forest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the big forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Cedar trees and dark green pines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t9:o1:1
# text = Cedar trees and dark green pines
1	Cedar	cedar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Oaks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t9:o2:1
# text = Oaks
1	Oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tall cedars with silver bark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t9:o3:1
# text = Tall cedars with silver bark
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Cedars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1689-pg640-part13:t9:o4:1
# text = Cedars
1	Cedars	cedar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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