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title: what was in that box, anyway? — Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche o… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was in that box, anyway? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 525 «Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Eros forgives her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Ero…

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what was in that box, anyway?

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

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 525 «Greek Myths, Eros and Psyche: Psyche opens the box and Eros forgives her» 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/525-pg22381-part31/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t9:1
# text = what was in that box, anyway?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
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	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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some sleepy dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t9:o1:1
# text = some sleepy dust
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dust	dust	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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a white fog that blinded her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t9:o2:1
# text = a white fog that blinded her
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	blinded	blind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blind** | past | a white fog | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a black cloud that knocked her out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t9:o3:1
# text = a black cloud that knocked her out
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock out** | past | a black cloud | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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smoke, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:525-pg22381-part31:t9:o4:1
# text = smoke, lol
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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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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