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title: Sus, what did the chamberlain put the babies in? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sus, what did the chamberlain put the babies in? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

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Sus, what did the chamberlain put the babies in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Sus · **What happens:** do, put in · **To what, where:** chamberlain, babies

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» 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/1188-pg3027-part54/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t8:1
# text = Sus, what did the chamberlain put the babies in?
1	Sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Sus | the chamberlain |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put in** | past | Sus | the babies |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent baby=Goal |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a silver chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t8:o1:1
# text = a silver chest
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a crystal cradle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t8:o2:1
# text = a crystal cradle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a wooden crate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t8:o3:1
# text = a wooden crate
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crate	crate	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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a little wicker basket lined with soft cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1188-pg3027-part54:t8:o4:1
# text = a little wicker basket lined with soft cloth
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wicker	wicker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **line** | participle |  | a little wicker basket *not said here* |  |  |  | with soft cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=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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