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title: wait, what's the castle even made of, coral or something? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what's the castle even made of, coral or something? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

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wait, what's the castle even made of, coral or something?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be, make · **To what, where:** castle

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» 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/876-pg27200-part87/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t2:1
# text = wait, what's the castle even made of, coral or something?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the castle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | the castle *not said here* |  |  |  | of coral | 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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pale limestone blocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t2:o1:1
# text = pale limestone blocks
1	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	limestone	limestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t2:o2:1
# text = coral
1	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t2:o3:1
# text = stones
1	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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marble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t2:o4:1
# text = marble
1	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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