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title: Lol, how strong was Kintaro at eight? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, how strong was Kintaro at eight? Test 3 · ★ 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 pragmat
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# Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures of Kintaro the Golden…

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Lol, how strong was Kintaro at eight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Kintaro

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t3:1
# text = Lol, how strong was Kintaro at eight?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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 | **is a** | past |  | Kintaro |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Strong enough to lift big rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t3:o1:1
# text = Strong enough to lift big rocks
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | to-infinitive |  | big rocks |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Strong enough to chop trees fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t3:o2:1
# text = Strong enough to chop trees fast
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop** | to-infinitive |  | trees |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Strong enough to chop down trees faster than all the woodcutters in the village combined

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t3:o3:1
# text = Strong enough to chop down trees faster than all the woodcutters in the village combined
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woodcutters	woodcutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop down** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **combine** | participle |  | the village *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Strong enough to wrestle a bear and win the match against all the animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1350-pg4018-part10:t3:o4:1
# text = Strong enough to wrestle a bear and win the match against all the animals
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrestle** | to-infinitive |  | a bear |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **win** | present |  | the match |  |  |  | against all animals | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality |

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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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