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title: wait, which way does the lid flip open, mate? — Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, which way does the lid flip open, mate? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1623 «Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the church and frees the princess» 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
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# Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the c…

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wait, which way does the lid flip open, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, way · **What happens:** wait, do, flip · **To what, where:** lid

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1623 «Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the church and frees the princess» 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/1623-pg5615-part12/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t3:1
# text = wait, which way does the lid flip open, mate?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	flip	flip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	xcomp	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | which way | the lid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flip** | present | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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to the left, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t3:o1:1
# text = to the left, mate
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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to the right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t3:o2:1
# text = to the right
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	right	right	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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towards the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t3:o3:1
# text = towards the window
1	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	window	window	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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up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1623-pg5615-part12:t3:o4:1
# text = up
1	up	up	ADV	RB	_	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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