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title: Which object did the husband bring to his wife from the capital? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the husband bring to his wife from the capital? Exam question 1 of lesson 1360 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: th…

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Which object did the husband bring to his wife from the capital?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** wife, capital

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1360 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1360-pg4018-part20/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:e1:1
# text = Which object did the husband bring to his wife from the capital?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · do-support | which object |  | husband's wife | the capital |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent to wife=Destination from capital=Initial\_Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A mirror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:e1:o1:1
# text = A mirror
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:e1:o2:1
# text = A sword
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	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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A comb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:e1:o3:1
# text = A comb
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comb	comb	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 silk robe for the new year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:e1:o4:1
# text = A silk robe for the new year
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	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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