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title: Where was the sword chillin'? — Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant · tree and pragmatics
description: Where was the sword chillin'? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 685 «Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant» 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 right.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant

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Where was the sword chillin'?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sword chillin · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 685 «Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant» 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/685-pg2435-part25/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t5:1
# text = Where was the sword chillin'?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chillin	chillin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sword chillin |  |  |  |  | where *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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On a nail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t5:o1:1
# text = On a nail
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nail	nail	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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On a shelf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t5:o2:1
# text = On a shelf
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shelf	shelf	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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Hanging on a nail by the robber's bed, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t5:o3:1
# text = Hanging on a nail by the robber's bed, like
1	Hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  | a nail |  | by the robber's bed | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nail=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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On the desk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t5:o4:1
# text = On the desk
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	desk	desk	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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