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title: Wait, what did the tailor use to lift the box up? — Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the tailor use to lift the box up? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1927 «Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor frees his bride's castle, then a young king is trapped in a royal vault» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor fre…

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Wait, what did the tailor use to lift the box up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, tailor · **What happens:** wait, use, lift up · **To what, where:** box

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1927 «Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor frees his bride's castle, then a young king is trapped in a royal vault» 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/1927-pg7277-part64/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t6:1
# text = Wait, what did the tailor use to lift the box up?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | **use** | past · do-support | the tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **lift up** | to-infinitive | the tailor *not said here* | the box |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the magic stone, obvi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t6:o1:1
# text = the magic stone, obvi
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	obvi	obvi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the huge stone from the old castle wall, obvi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t6:o2:1
# text = the huge stone from the old castle wall, obvi
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	obvi	obvi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a wooden lever, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t6:o3:1
# text = a wooden lever, bro
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lever	lever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the box, obvi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t6:o4:1
# text = the box, obvi
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	obvi	obvi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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