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title: What was in the chest? Like, was it wicked? — Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the S… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was in the chest? Like, was it wicked? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1671 «Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60: the old man's gift and the greedy wife's trip» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…

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What was in the chest? Like, was it wicked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** chest · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** chest

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1671 «Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60: the old man's gift and the greedy wife's trip» 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/1671-pg5615-part60/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* What was in the chest?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1671-pg5615-part60:t7:1
# text = What was in the chest?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the chest |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Like, was it wicked?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1671-pg5615-part60:t7:2
# text = Like, was it wicked?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | chest |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
gold and jewels piled up to the lid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1671-pg5615-part60:t7:o1:1
# text = gold and jewels piled up to the lid
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile up** | participle |  | jewels *not said here* |  |  |  | to the lid | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
gold and jewels piled up to the lid, and there were also strange glowing stones from the sea

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1671-pg5615-part60:t7:o2:1
# text = gold and jewels piled up to the lid, and there were also strange glowing stones from the sea
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
16	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile up** | participle |  | jewels *not said here* |  |  |  | to the lid | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | gold and jewels |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **glow** | gerund | gold and jewels *not said here* | stones |  | the sea |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
heaps of coins and dusty rubies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1671-pg5615-part60:t7:o3:1
# text = heaps of coins and dusty rubies
1	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a dark heap of old bones and a few rusty coins piled high under a cloth of silk

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1671-pg5615-part60:t7:o4:1
# text = a dark heap of old bones and a few rusty coins piled high under a cloth of silk
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile** | participle |  | a few rusty coins *not said here* |  | a cloth of silk |  | high *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme under cloth=Destination |

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