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title: Of what material are the idols recorded as being composed? — Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of what material are the idols recorded as being composed? Exam question 3 of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

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Of what material are the idols recorded as being composed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** material · **What happens:** be, record, compose · **To what, where:** idols

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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/908-pg27200-part119/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e3:1
# text = Of what material are the idols recorded as being composed?
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | material | the idols |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **record** | participle |  | the idols *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **compose** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V» |

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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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ox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e3:o1:1
# text = ox
1	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e3:o2:1
# text = oil
1	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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tin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e3:o3:1
# text = tin
1	tin	tin	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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iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:e3:o4:1
# text = iron
1	iron	iron	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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