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title: Mad, what were the soldiers in the forest dressed in? — Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold we… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad, what were the soldiers in the forest dressed in? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 785 «Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair» 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 wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair

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Mad, what were the soldiers in the forest dressed in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, dress · **To what, where:** soldiers, forest

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 785 «Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair» 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/785-pg2591-part61/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:785-pg2591-part61:t12:1
# text = Mad, what were the soldiers in the forest dressed in?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	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 |  | the soldiers |  | the forest |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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steel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:785-pg2591-part61:t12:o1:1
# text = steel
1	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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armour made of iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:785-pg2591-part61:t12:o2:1
# text = armour made of iron
1	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | armour *not said here* |  |  |  | of iron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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heavy dark chain mail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:785-pg2591-part61:t12:o3:1
# text = heavy dark chain mail
1	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mail	mail	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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shining silver helmets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:785-pg2591-part61:t12:o4:1
# text = shining silver helmets
1	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund |  | silver helmets |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |

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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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