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title: when she opened the box, what jumped out first? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut S… · tree and pragmatics
description: when she opened the box, what jumped out first? Test 9 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…

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when she opened the box, what jumped out first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she, box · **What happens:** open, jump out · **To what, where:** box

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t9:1
# text = when she opened the box, what jumped out first?
1	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
8	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | she | the box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme |
| 2 | **jump out** | past | the box |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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a demon with two eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t9:o1:1
# text = a demon with two eyes
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a demon with one huge eye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t9:o2:1
# text = a demon with one huge eye
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a horrible demon with one huge eye and sharp teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t9:o3:1
# text = a horrible demon with one huge eye and sharp teeth
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a crowd of demons and snakes with glowing red eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t9:o4:1
# text = a crowd of demons and snakes with glowing red eyes
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund | a crowd of demons and snakes *not said here* | red eyes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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