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title: Yo, what was the quill pen proud of? — pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what was the quill pen proud of? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1618 «pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns the Tanuki, then a poor merchant's son flies off to the Turks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 12 · ★ · pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns th…

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Yo, what was the quill pen proud of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quill pen · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1618 «pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns the Tanuki, then a poor merchant's son flies off to the Turks» 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/1618-pg5615-part7/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t12:1
# text = Yo, what was the quill pen proud of?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	quill	quill	NOUN	NN	_	7	compound	_	_
7	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
8	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the quill pen |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Its sharp nib and fine ink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t12:o1:1
# text = Its sharp nib and fine ink
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nib	nib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Its new nib

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t12:o2:1
# text = Its new nib
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nib	nib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Being dipped too deep in ink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t12:o3:1
# text = Being dipped too deep in ink
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	dipped	dip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	csubj	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V» |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Its feather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t12:o4:1
# text = Its feather
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	feather	feather	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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