--- title: What was the tortoise's job in all this, sort of? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: U… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the tortoise's job in all this, sort of? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1347 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the box and grows old» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1347-pg4018-part7/t7/) [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: U…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1347-pg4018-part7/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the bo… What was the tortoise's job in all this, sort of? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** job, this This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1347 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the box and grows old» 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/1347-pg4018-part7/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1347-pg4018-part7:t7:1 # text = What was the tortoise's job in all this, sort of? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 9 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the tortoise's job | | this | | sort *nmod* | tree rules | 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} Giving him a lift home ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1347-pg4018-part7:t7:o1:1 # text = Giving him a lift home 1 Giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | gerund | | a lift home | him *= he* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient home=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} A ride ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1347-pg4018-part7:t7:o2:1 # text = A ride 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Taking him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1347-pg4018-part7:t7:o3:1 # text = Taking him 1 Taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | | | him *= he* | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Carrying him to the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1347-pg4018-part7:t7:o4:1 # text = Carrying him to the sea 1 Carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | gerund | | him *= he* | | the sea | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sea=Destination | **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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