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title: Okay but what's in the lacquer box? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay but what's in the lacquer box? Test 12 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: th…

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Okay but what's in the lacquer box?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lacquer box

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t12:1
# text = Okay but what's in the lacquer box?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the lacquer box |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t12:o1:1
# text = Tea
1	Tea	tea	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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Candles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t12:o2:1
# text = Candles
1	Candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t12:o3:1
# text = Rice
1	Rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Cakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t12:o4:1
# text = Cakes
1	Cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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