--- title: Did the fish guards bow to him? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, p… · tree and pragmatics description: Did the fish guards bow to him? Test 11 · ★ 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 the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1346-pg4018-part6/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1346-pg4018-part6/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride… Did the fish guards bow to him? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fish guards · **What happens:** do, bow · **To what, where:** him This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t11:1 # text = Did the fish guards bow to him? 1 Did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 bow bow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bow** | present | the fish guards | | him *= he* | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot | 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 {#o1} Yeah, they bowed low ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t11:o1:1 # text = Yeah, they bowed low 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bow** | past | they | | | | | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, just nods ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t11:o2:1 # text = Nah, just nods 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 nods nod VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nod** | present | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yeah, loads of bows ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t11:o3:1 # text = Yeah, loads of bows 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 bows bow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Nah, they just waved ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t11:o4:1 # text = Nah, they just waved 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wave** | past | they | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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. 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