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title: Who borrowed the pot first, like? — Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who borrowed the pot first, like? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 4 · ★ · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…

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Who borrowed the pot first, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** borrow · **To what, where:** pot

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» 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/1308-pg3454-part33/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t4:1
# text = Who borrowed the pot first, like?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | past |  | the pot |  |  |  | first *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |

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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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The village girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t4:o1:1
# text = The village girl
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Neighbour lady

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t4:o2:1
# text = Neighbour lady
1	Neighbour	neighbour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lady	lady	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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The old widow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t4:o3:1
# text = The old widow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	widow	widow	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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The neighbour lady from across the path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t4:o4:1
# text = The neighbour lady from across the path
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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