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title: so the carpenter smashed his statue and gold just poured out, right? — Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury a… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the carpenter smashed his statue and gold just poured out, right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 395 «Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a poor carpenter smashes his idol and gets gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…

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so the carpenter smashed his statue and gold just poured out, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** carpenter, statue · **What happens:** smash, pour out

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 395 «Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a poor carpenter smashes his idol and gets gold» 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/395-pg21-part16/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t1:1
# text = so the carpenter smashed his statue and gold just poured out, right?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smashed	smash	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smash** | past | the carpenter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour out** | past | carpenter's statue and gold |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t1:o1:1
# text = gold coins
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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just gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t1:o2:1
# text = just gold
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gold	gold	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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a rush of golden coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t1:o3:1
# text = a rush of golden coins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** |  |  | golden coins |  |  |  |  | nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a stream of gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:395-pg21-part16:t1:o4:1
# text = a stream of gold
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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