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title: ngl the box had gold and silver in it, right? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut S… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl the box had gold and silver in it, right? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1344 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the greedy old wife opens the big box and finds demons» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ngl the box had gold and silver in it, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** gold, box

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1344 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the greedy old wife opens the big box and finds demons» 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/1344-pg4018-part4/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t3:1
# text = ngl the box had gold and silver in it, right?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | ngl | gold and silver |  | box |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, stuffed with shiny jewels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t3:o1:1
# text = fr, stuffed with shiny jewels
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stuff** | participle |  | fr *not said here* |  |  |  | with shiny jewels | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, filled to the brim with coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t3:o2:1
# text = fr, filled to the brim with coins
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | participle |  | fr *not said here* |  |  |  | to the brim with coins | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, it had some rice in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t3:o3:1
# text = nah, it had some rice in it
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | it | some rice |  | rice |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, filled to the brim with coins and a note from the sparrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t3:o4:1
# text = fr, filled to the brim with coins and a note from the sparrow
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | participle |  | fr *not said here* |  | the sparrow |  | to the brim with coins and a note | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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