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title: Mint, but what were the pearls made of, bruv? — Greek Myths, Aphrodite, part 12: Aphro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mint, but what were the pearls made of, bruv? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 506 «Greek Myths, Aphrodite, part 12: Aphrodite is born from the sea, and Adonis's sad fate» 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
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# Test 12 · ★ · Greek Myths, Aphrodite, part 12: Aphrodite is born from th…

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Mint, but what were the pearls made of, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mint · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** pearls

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 506 «Greek Myths, Aphrodite, part 12: Aphrodite is born from the sea, and Adonis's sad fate» 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/506-pg22381-part12/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12:t12:1
# text = Mint, but what were the pearls made of, bruv?
1	Mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mint but the pearls and bruv | the pearls |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the pearls *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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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silver jewelry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12:t12:o1:1
# text = silver jewelry
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	jewelry	jewelry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the foam from her silver hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12:t12:o2:1
# text = the foam from her silver hair
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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drops from her shaking hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12:t12:o3:1
# text = drops from her shaking hair
1	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the salt water that fell from the hair of the goddess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:506-pg22381-part12:t12:o4:1
# text = the salt water that fell from the hair of the goddess
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the salt water |  |  | the hair of the goddess |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hair=Initial\_Location |

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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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