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title: Mate, what sort of wood is mahogany, anyway? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what sort of wood is mahogany, anyway? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

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Mate, what sort of wood is mahogany, anyway?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, sort · **To what, where:** Mate mahogany, wood

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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/970-pg27200-part181/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t12:1
# text = Mate, what sort of wood is mahogany, anyway?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Mate mahogany |  |  |  | anyway *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sort** |  |  | wood |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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A pale yellow timber

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t12:o1:1
# text = A pale yellow timber
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A tropical tree that grows in the far jungle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t12:o2:1
# text = A tropical tree that grows in the far jungle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | a tropical tree |  |  | the far jungle |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A hard blackish wood from a big tree in India

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t12:o3:1
# text = A hard blackish wood from a big tree in India
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	blackish	blackish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A dark reddish-brown wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t12:o4:1
# text = A dark reddish-brown wood
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	reddish	reddish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wood	wood	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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