--- title: Of what material were the walls and ceiling of the old woman's dwell… — Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Of what material were the walls and ceiling of the old woman's dwelling constructed? Exam question 1 of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1789-pg641-part40/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1789-pg641-part40/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea… Of what material were the walls and ceiling of the old woman's dwelling constructed? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** material, ceiling · **What happens:** be, dwell, construct · **To what, where:** walls This is exam question 1 of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1789-pg641-part40/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:e1:1 # text = Of what material were the walls and ceiling of the old woman's dwelling constructed? 1 Of of ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 3 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 of of SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 dwelling dwell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 15 constructed construct VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | material | the walls and ceiling | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dwell** | gerund | ceiling *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **construct** | participle | ceiling *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} Clay ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:e1:o1:1 # text = Clay 1 Clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Painted tin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:e1:o2:1 # text = Painted tin 1 Painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Marble ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:e1:o3:1 # text = Marble 1 Marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Wood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:e1:o4:1 # text = Wood 1 Wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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