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title: what's the big ask, he wants the guy to do what? — Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of R… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the big ask, he wants the guy to do what? Test 5 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warri…

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what's the big ask, he wants the guy to do what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he, guy · **What happens:** be, want, do · **To what, where:** big ask, guy

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t5:1
# text = what's the big ask, he wants the guy to do what?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ask	ask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the big ask |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | he | the guy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the guy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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bring back the centipede's head as proof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t5:o1:1
# text = bring back the centipede's head as proof
1	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	centipede	centipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | imperative | you *not said here* | the centipede's head |  |  |  | as proof | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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

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kill the centipede

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t5:o2:1
# text = kill the centipede
1	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	centipede	centipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | imperative | you *not said here* | the centipede |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centipede=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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slay the giant toad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t5:o3:1
# text = slay the giant toad
1	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | imperative | you *not said here* | the giant toad |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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go up the mountain and kill the giant centipede

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1341-pg4018-part1:t5:o4:1
# text = go up the mountain and kill the giant centipede
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	centipede	centipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the giant centipede |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centipede=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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