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title: Rad, what was the palace hall like? — Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rad, what was the palace hall like? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 952 «Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, part 163: a poor sculptor in Rome falls in love with a noble lady and carves her in marble» 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 11 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, part 163: a poor scul…

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Rad, what was the palace hall like?

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

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 952 «Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, part 163: a poor sculptor in Rome falls in love with a noble lady and carves her in marble» 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/952-pg27200-part163/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:952-pg27200-part163:t11:1
# text = Rad, what was the palace hall like?
1	Rad	rad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Rad | the palace hall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Shiny gold and bright colours everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:952-pg27200-part163:t11:o1:1
# text = Shiny gold and bright colours everywhere
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Grey stone walls and dusty floors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:952-pg27200-part163:t11:o2:1
# text = Grey stone walls and dusty floors
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Plain and bare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:952-pg27200-part163:t11:o3:1
# text = Plain and bare
1	Plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wooden benches and plain white walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:952-pg27200-part163:t11:o4:1
# text = Wooden benches and plain white walls
1	Wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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