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title: ok the coffin got nailed shut somewhere, where tho? — Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok the coffin got nailed shut somewhere, where tho? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

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ok the coffin got nailed shut somewhere, where tho?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** nail · **To what, where:** coffin

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» 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/809-pg27200-part20/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t7:1
# text = ok the coffin got nailed shut somewhere, where tho?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	nailed	nail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	conj	_	_
10	tho	tho	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nail** | past · passive |  | the coffin |  |  |  | shut, somewhere *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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in the parlour below

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t7:o1:1
# text = in the parlour below
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	below	below	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t7:o2:1
# text = in the hall
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a distant room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t7:o3:1
# text = in a distant room
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in the next room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t7:o4:1
# text = in the next room
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	room	room	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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