--- title: Was the castle pretty or minging? — Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the y… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the castle pretty or minging? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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 wrong --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1940-pg7277-part77/t11/) [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/) / [Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the y…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1940-pg7277-part77/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleep… Was the castle pretty or minging? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, ming · **To what, where:** castle This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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/1940-pg7277-part77/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t11:1 # text = Was the castle pretty or minging? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 csubj _ _ 4 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 minging ming VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the castle | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ming** | gerund | | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | 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 {#o1} Dead beautiful, all gold and silk and sparkling jewels everywhere ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t11:o1:1 # text = Dead beautiful, all gold and silk and sparkling jewels everywhere 1 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 10 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 9 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sparkle** | gerund | | jewels | | | | everywhere *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Dead beautiful, all gold and silk ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t11:o2:1 # text = Dead beautiful, all gold and silk 1 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Lovely, full of silver and glass ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t11:o3:1 # text = Lovely, full of silver and glass 1 Lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Pretty, with tall stone walls ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t11:o4:1 # text = Pretty, with tall stone walls 1 Pretty pretty ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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