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title: what's the Glass Mountain, bruh? — Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the Glass Mountain, bruh? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1703 «Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is pulled under the pond, and his wife wins him back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what's the Glass Mountain, bruh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Glass Mountain · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1703 «Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is pulled under the pond, and his wife wins him back» 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/1703-pg640-part27/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1703-pg640-part27:t8:1
# text = what's the Glass Mountain, bruh?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Glass	Glass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Glass Mountain |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a mountain with a golden castle on top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1703-pg640-part27:t8:o1:1
# text = a mountain with a golden castle on top
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a shining mountain of glass with a golden castle on top and an apple-tree beside it

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1703-pg640-part27:t8:o2:1
# text = a shining mountain of glass with a golden castle on top and an apple-tree beside it
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
17	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a huge hill of ice where the knights had to climb up on horses shod with nails

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1703-pg640-part27:t8:o3:1
# text = a huge hill of ice where the knights had to climb up on horses shod with nails
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	shod	shoe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on horses | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shoe** | past · perfect · passive |  | a huge hill |  |  |  | of ice; with nails | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with nail=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a mountain with a silver tower on top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1703-pg640-part27:t8:o4:1
# text = a mountain with a silver tower on top
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

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