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title: what even is a sealskin dwarf, a dwarf who wears seal skin, yeah? — The Magic City, the North Pole dragon… · tree and pragmatics
description: what even is a sealskin dwarf, a dwarf who wears seal skin, yeah? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 12 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…

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what even is a sealskin dwarf, a dwarf who wears seal skin, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, wear, seal · **To what, where:** sealskin dwarf, skin

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» 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/646-pg23661-part14/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t12:1
# text = what even is a sealskin dwarf, a dwarf who wears seal skin, yeah?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	seal	seal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a sealskin dwarf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seal** | present |  | skin |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no, a fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t12:o1:1
# text = no, a fish
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, a dwarf in a seal coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t12:o2:1
# text = yes, a dwarf in a seal coat
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, a seal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t12:o3:1
# text = yes, a seal
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, a dwarf dressed in seal fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t12:o4:1
# text = yes, a dwarf dressed in seal fur
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  | a dwarf *not said here* |  | seal fur |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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