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title: what was the island like, dude? — Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 2… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the island like, dude? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2061 «Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the five dragon-born warriors to build a city, finds a magic palace, and meets Harmonia» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…

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what was the island like, dude?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** island · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2061 «Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the five dragon-born warriors to build a city, finds a magic palace, and meets Harmonia» 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/2061-pg976-part20/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:t12:1
# text = what was the island like, dude?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	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** | past | the island like dude |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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green and pleasant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:t12:o1:1
# text = green and pleasant
1	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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rocky and grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:t12:o2:1
# text = rocky and grey
1	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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dry and barren

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:t12:o3:1
# text = dry and barren
1	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	barren	barren	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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flat and sandy, with a few dry trees and no water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2061-pg976-part20:t12:o4:1
# text = flat and sandy, with a few dry trees and no water
1	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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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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