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title: wait, what held up the broken pillar? — Myths and Legends of China, The Empres… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what held up the broken pillar? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

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wait, what held up the broken pillar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, hold up, break · **To what, where:** broken pillar

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» 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/1387-pg4018-part47/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t4:1
# text = wait, what held up the broken pillar?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold up** | past |  | the broken pillar |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pillar=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Giant dragon tails, pretty wild

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t4:o1:1
# text = Giant dragon tails, pretty wild
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stone pillars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t4:o2:1
# text = Stone pillars
1	Stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Legs of a giant tortoise, wild right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t4:o3:1
# text = Legs of a giant tortoise, wild right
1	Legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Huge bronze pillars from the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1387-pg4018-part47:t4:o4:1
# text = Huge bronze pillars from the palace
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	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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