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title: was the golden castle thing even possible in an hour? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the golden castle thing even possible in an hour? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

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was the golden castle thing even possible in an hour?

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

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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/1710-pg640-part34/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t3:1
# text = was the golden castle thing even possible in an hour?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 golden castle thing |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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no way, it was impossible

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t3:o1:1
# text = no way, it was impossible
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no way |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sure, it was easy enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t3:o2:1
# text = sure, it was easy enough
1	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | easy, enough *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no way, it was impossible without the magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t3:o3:1
# text = no way, it was impossible without the magic
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no way |  |  |  |  | without the magic; impossible *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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no way, it was impossible for any human to do that in time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t3:o4:1
# text = no way, it was impossible for any human to do that in time
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	csubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no way |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | no way *not said here* | that |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

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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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