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title: Lol, what were the elves' clothes made of? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what were the elves' clothes made of? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

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Lol, what were the elves' clothes made of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** clothes

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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/989-pg27200-part200/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t11:1
# text = Lol, what were the elves' clothes made of?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	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** | past |  | the elves's clothes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the elves's clothes *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 {#o1}

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petals stitched with spider silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t11:o1:1
# text = petals stitched with spider silk
1	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	stitched	stitch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stitch** | participle |  | petals *not said here* |  |  |  | with spider silk | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t11:o2:1
# text = leaves
1	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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flower leaves and fly wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t11:o3:1
# text = flower leaves and fly wings
1	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | flower leaves | wings |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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thin bark cloth and beetle dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t11:o4:1
# text = thin bark cloth and beetle dust
1	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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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