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title: so the centipede was dead for real, right? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the centipede was dead for real, right? Test 12 · ★ 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 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last…

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so the centipede was dead for real, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** centipede · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t12:1
# text = so the centipede was dead for real, right?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	centipede	centipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the centipede |  |  |  |  | for real; dead *property* | tree rules |

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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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yeah, it fell in the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t12:o1:1
# text = yeah, it fell in the lake
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | it |  |  | the lake |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in lake=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no, it was still alive and slipped back into the lake after the battle

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t12:o2:1
# text = no, it was still alive and slipped back into the lake after the battle
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  | still | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slip back** | past |  |  |  | the lake | after the battle |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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yeah, its body floated on the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t12:o3:1
# text = yeah, its body floated on the lake
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | participle |  | its body *not said here* |  | the lake |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lake=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, its body floated on the lake, dyed red with blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t12:o4:1
# text = yeah, its body floated on the lake, dyed red with blood
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dyed	dye	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | participle |  | its body *not said here* |  | the lake |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lake=Trajectory |
| 2 | **dye** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with blood; red *property* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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