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title: so what does the old man do all day then? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what does the old man do all day then? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1342 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last arrow slays the monster» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last…

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so what does the old man do all day then?

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

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1342 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last arrow slays the monster» 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/1342-pg4018-part2/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t10:1
# text = so what does the old man do all day then?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  | then; day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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works in the fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t10:o1:1
# text = works in the fields
1	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in the fields | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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cuts wood in the hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t10:o2:1
# text = cuts wood in the hills
1	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | present |  | wood |  | the hills |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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digs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t10:o3:1
# text = digs
1	digs	dig	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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farms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t10:o4:1
# text = farms
1	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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