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title: ngl, what was the mermaid's birthday wreath made of? — Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what was the mermaid's birthday wreath made of? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from the storm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

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ngl, what was the mermaid's birthday wreath made of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** birthday wreath

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from the storm» 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/877-pg27200-part88/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t1:1
# text = ngl, what was the mermaid's birthday wreath made of?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	of	of	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 | ngl | the mermaid's birthday wreath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the mermaid's birthday wreath *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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white lilies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t1:o1:1
# text = white lilies
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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pearl bands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t1:o2:1
# text = pearl bands
1	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a crown of white lilies and pearls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t1:o3:1
# text = a crown of white lilies and pearls
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crown** |  |  | white lilies and pearls |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t1:o4:1
# text = sea shells
1	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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