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title: what was the branch chilling in when he gave it over? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutte… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the branch chilling in when he gave it over? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1357 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonlight, part 17: a fake bowl is sent back and a fake branch is found out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonl…

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what was the branch chilling in when he gave it over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** branch, he · **What happens:** be, chill in, give over · **To what, where:** branch

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1357 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonlight, part 17: a fake bowl is sent back and a fake branch is found out» 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/1357-pg4018-part17/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t6:1
# text = what was the branch chilling in when he gave it over?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the branch |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chill in** | gerund | the branch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **give over** | past | he | branch |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 silver casket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t6:o1:1
# text = A silver casket
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A fancy lacquer box with gold trim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t6:o2:1
# text = A fancy lacquer box with gold trim
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trim	trim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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A lacquer box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t6:o3:1
# text = A lacquer box
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	box	box	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 wooden chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t6:o4:1
# text = A wooden chest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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