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title: Lol, what was the ceiling made of? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what was the ceiling made of? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…

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Lol, what was the ceiling made of?

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

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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/1748-pg640-part72/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t7:1
# text = Lol, what was the ceiling made of?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the ceiling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the ceiling *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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glass mirrors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t7:o1:1
# text = glass mirrors
1	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	mirrors	mirror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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polished copper sheets set in heavy iron frames

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t7:o2:1
# text = polished copper sheets set in heavy iron frames
1	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	frames	frame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | participle |  | polished copper sheets *not said here* |  | heavy iron frames |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in frame=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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gold leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t7:o3:1
# text = gold leaf
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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oak beams

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t7:o4:1
# text = oak beams
1	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	beams	beam	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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