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title: Wait, the Princess was the tortoise all along? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, the Princess was the tortoise all along? Test 4 · ★ 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 pragmati
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# Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride…

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Wait, the Princess was the tortoise all along?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Princess · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** tortoise

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t4:1
# text = Wait, the Princess was the tortoise all along?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	along	along	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	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* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Princess | the tortoise |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Nah, a different one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t4:o1:1
# text = Nah, a different one
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nope, a crab

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t4:o2:1
# text = Nope, a crab
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Yeah, same tortoise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah, same tortoise
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nah, a fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1346-pg4018-part6:t4:o4:1
# text = Nah, a fish
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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