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title: who dances, the goldfish or the carp? — Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of R… · tree and pragmatics
description: who dances, the goldfish or the carp? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1341 «Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warrior walks over a sleeping dragon and meets the Dragon King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warri…

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who dances, the goldfish or the carp?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** dance · **To what, where:** goldfish

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1341 «Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warrior walks over a sleeping dragon and meets the Dragon King» 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/1341-pg4018-part1/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t12:1
# text = who dances, the goldfish or the carp?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	carp	carp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | present |  | the goldfish or the carp |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goldfish=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 {#o1}

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ten goldfish dancers in silk robes and gold fans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t12:o1:1
# text = ten goldfish dancers in silk robes and gold fans
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ten goldfish dancers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t12:o2:1
# text = ten goldfish dancers
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ten turtle dancers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t12:o3:1
# text = ten turtle dancers
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ten silver eels dancing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t12:o4:1
# text = ten silver eels dancing
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | gerund | ten silver eels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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