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description: Wait, did the tortoise really grow huge, or was Urashima just seeing things? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1346 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima rides a tortoise to the Sea King's palace, is welcomed, and is married to the Princess.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with th
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# Test 1 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride…

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Wait, did the tortoise really grow huge, or was Urashima just seeing things?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Urashima · **What happens:** wait, do, grow, see · **To what, where:** tortoise, things

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1346 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima rides a tortoise to the Sea King's palace, is welcomed, and is married to the Princess.» 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/1346-pg4018-part6/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t1:1
# text = Wait, did the tortoise really grow huge, or was Urashima just seeing things?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	Urashima	Urashima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | you *not said here* | the tortoise |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Eventuality |
| 3 | **grow** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past · progressive | Urashima | things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It really grew huge, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t1:o1:1
# text = It really grew huge, mate
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | It | huge mate |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mate=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just seeing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t1:o2:1
# text = Nah, just seeing
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it got massive, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it got massive, mate
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	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | it | massive mate |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mate=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it stayed tiny, honestly mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, it stayed tiny, honestly mate
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | it |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative*; honestly, tiny *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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