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title: Was Circe's chair a proper bling throne or just a plain old stool? — Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was Circe's chair a proper bling throne or just a plain old stool? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 2067 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits Circe with a magic flower and frightens her into begging for mercy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…

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Was Circe's chair a proper bling throne or just a plain old stool?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** chair

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2067 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits Circe with a magic flower and frightens her into begging for mercy» 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/2067-pg976-part26/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:t4:1
# text = Was Circe's chair a proper bling throne or just a plain old stool?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	csubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	bling	bling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Circe's chair |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Carved oak with silver bits on it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:t4:o1:1
# text = Carved oak with silver bits on it
1	Carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Chased gold with jewels all over it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:t4:o2:1
# text = Chased gold with jewels all over it
1	Chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | participle |  | gold |  | gold |  | with jewels | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gold=Theme over it=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Plain old wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:t4:o3:1
# text = Plain old wood
1	Plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wood	wood	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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Shiny silver with some gems on top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2067-pg976-part26:t4:o4:1
# text = Shiny silver with some gems on top
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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