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title: What's the emperor's palace made of, like the most fragile stuff ever? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the emperor's palace made of, like the most fragile stuff ever? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

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What's the emperor's palace made of, like the most fragile stuff ever?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** palace

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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/911-pg27200-part122/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t12:1
# text = What's the emperor's palace made of, like the most fragile stuff ever?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	fragile	fragile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the emperor's palace and the fragile stuff |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the emperor's palace and the fragile stuff *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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porcelain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t12:o1:1
# text = porcelain
1	porcelain	porcelain	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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ceramic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t12:o2:1
# text = ceramic
1	ceramic	ceramic	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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crystal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t12:o3:1
# text = crystal
1	crystal	crystal	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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thin porcelain covered in gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t12:o4:1
# text = thin porcelain covered in gold
1	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | thin porcelain *not said here* |  |  |  | in gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in gold=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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