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title: What's that big lamp made of? — English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's that big lamp made of? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

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What's that big lamp made of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big lamp · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** big lamp

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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/1960-pg7439-part19/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t11:1
# text = What's that big lamp made of?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that big lamp |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | that big lamp *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A hollowed out pearl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t11:o1:1
# text = A hollowed out pearl
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	hollowed	hollow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hollow out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A hollowed out pearl hung from a golden chain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t11:o2:1
# text = A hollowed out pearl hung from a golden chain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	hollowed	hollow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hollow out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hang** | participle |  | a hollowed pearl *not said here* |  | a golden chain |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Solid crystal ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t11:o3:1
# text = Solid crystal ice
1	Solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ice	ice	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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A big hollowed out ruby from the king's crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t11:o4:1
# text = A big hollowed out ruby from the king's crown
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	hollowed	hollow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hollow out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crown** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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