---
title: Which object was bequeathed to Jack by his father, and under what co… — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object was bequeathed to Jack by his father, and under what condition was it to be opened? Exam question 1 of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the d
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1954-pg7439-part13/e1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1954-pg7439-part13/) / e1

# Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which object was bequeathed to Jack by his father, and under what condition was it to be opened?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** father · **What happens:** bequeath, open · **To what, where:** object, Jack, condition

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1954-pg7439-part13/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:e1:1
# text = Which object was bequeathed to Jack by his father, and under what condition was it to be opened?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	bequeathed	bequeath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bequeath** | past · passive | Jack's father | which object | Jack |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to jack=Goal |
| 2 | **open** | past · passive |  | object |  | what condition |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme under condition=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a snuff-box, opened at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:e1:o1:1
# text = a snuff-box, opened at once
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | participle |  | a snuff box *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a golden snuff-box, to be opened only near death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:e1:o2:1
# text = a golden snuff-box, to be opened only near death
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | death |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: near death=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a golden snuff-box, to be opened at sunrise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:e1:o3:1
# text = a golden snuff-box, to be opened at sunrise
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  | sunrise |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V» |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a silver snuff-box, to be kept unopened

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:e1:o4:1
# text = a silver snuff-box, to be kept unopened
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	unopened	unopened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | unopened *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde…, test 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1954-pg7439-part13/t14/)
- next →: [Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1954-pg7439-part13/e2/)
- ↑ back to [Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1954-pg7439-part13/)