--- title: Proper, what was the castle standing on? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics description: Proper, what was the castle standing on? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1954-pg7439-part13/t12/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1954-pg7439-part13/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13… Proper, what was the castle standing on? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** castle · **What happens:** be, stand on · **To what, where:** castle This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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/1954-pg7439-part13/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t12:1 # text = Proper, what was the castle standing on? 1 Proper properly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ 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 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the castle | | | | properly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stand on** | gerund | the castle *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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} seven silver pillars ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t12:o1:1 # text = seven silver pillars 1 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a great golden floor on twelve pillars and a moat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t12:o2:1 # text = a great golden floor on twelve pillars and a moat 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 moat moat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} twelve golden pillars rising out of the sea below ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t12:o3:1 # text = twelve golden pillars rising out of the sea below 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 below below ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | gerund | twelve golden pillars *not said here* | | | the sea | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=Location | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} twelve golden pillars ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t12:o4:1 # text = twelve golden pillars 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pillars pillar 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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