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title: What material did the young man's palace possess in its laths? — Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: What material did the young man's palace possess in its laths? Exam question 2 of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

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What material did the young man's palace possess in its laths?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** material, palace · **What happens:** do, possess · **To what, where:** laths

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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/1896-pg7277-part33/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:e2:1
# text = What material did the young man's palace possess in its laths?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	laths	lath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | material |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **possess** | present | the young man's palace |  |  | palace's laths |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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Silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:e2:o1:1
# text = Silver
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:e2:o2:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:e2:o3:1
# text = Tin
1	Tin	tin	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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Iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1896-pg7277-part33:e2:o4:1
# text = Iron
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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