---
title: With reference to the passage, state the substance of which the Nort… — The Magic City, The North Pole, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: With reference to the passage, state the substance of which the North Pole is said to be composed. Exam question 1 of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/e1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [The Magic City, The North Pole, part 1…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/) / e1

# Exam question 1 · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
With reference to the passage, state the substance of which the North Pole is said to be composed.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** say, compose · **To what, where:** North Pole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 1 of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/645-pg23661-part13/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:e1:1
# text = With reference to the passage, state the substance of which the North Pole is said to be composed.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the North Pole |  |  |  | of the substance | tree rules |
| 2 | **compose** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V» |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
clear ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:e1:o1:1
# text = clear ice
1	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:e1:o2:1
# text = snow
1	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
frozen sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:e1:o3:1
# text = frozen sea
1	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
hard stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:e1:o4:1
# text = hard stone
1	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The Magic City, The North Pole, part 1…, test 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/t13/)
- next →: [The Magic City, The North Pole, part 1…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/e2/)
- ↑ back to [The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/645-pg23661-part13/)