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title: Was the cord cut with a sword or what? — Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the cord cut with a sword or what? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's…

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Was the cord cut with a sword or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, cut · **To what, where:** cord

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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/1699-pg640-part23/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t5:1
# text = Was the cord cut with a sword or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	conj	_	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 cord |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | participle |  | the cord *not said here* |  |  |  | with a sword | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with sword=Instrument |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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With his sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t5:o1:1
# text = With his sword
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sword	sword	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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With a silver axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t5:o2:1
# text = With a silver axe
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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No, a knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t5:o3:1
# text = No, a knife
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knife	knife	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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By fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t5:o4:1
# text = By fire
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fire	fire	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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