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title: Bro, what dropped down in the courtyard? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what dropped down in the courtyard? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1350 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures of Kintaro the Golden Boy, part 1: a widow hides her baby in the mountains, and the animals hold a wrestling match» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures of Kintaro the Golden…

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Bro, what dropped down in the courtyard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** drop down · **To what, where:** courtyard

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1350 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures of Kintaro the Golden Boy, part 1: a widow hides her baby in the mountains, and the animals hold a wrestling match» 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/1350-pg4018-part10/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t10:1
# text = Bro, what dropped down in the courtyard?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop down** | past |  |  |  | the courtyard |  | Bro *vocative* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Trajectory |

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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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A golden mirror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t10:o1:1
# text = A golden mirror
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mirror	mirror	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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A sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t10:o2:1
# text = A sword
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	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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His bow and arrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t10:o3:1
# text = His bow and arrow
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His spear and shield

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t10:o4:1
# text = His spear and shield
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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