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title: Wait, who was keeping the cage key? — Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: hunt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, who was keeping the cage key? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» 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 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild…

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Wait, who was keeping the cage key?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, keep · **To what, where:** cage key

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» 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/784-pg2591-part60/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t5:1
# text = Wait, who was keeping the cage key?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	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 | **keep** | past · progressive |  | the cage key |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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}

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the queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t5:o1:1
# text = the queen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	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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the cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t5:o2:1
# text = the cook
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	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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the old guard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t5:o3:1
# text = the old guard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the head nurse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t5:o4:1
# text = the head nurse
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	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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