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title: Bro, what was the ship made of? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what was the ship made of? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

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Bro, what was the ship made of?

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

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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/1917-pg7277-part54/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t7:1
# text = Bro, what was the ship made of?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	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	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Paper, like loads of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t7:o1:1
# text = Paper, like loads of it
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Glass, super shiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t7:o2:1
# text = Glass, super shiny
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	super	super	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Iron, proper heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t7:o3:1
# text = Iron, proper heavy
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wood, dead solid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1917-pg7277-part54:t7:o4:1
# text = Wood, dead solid
1	Wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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