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title: Sick, what is Kintaro's mum called in the story? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, what is Kintaro's mum called in the story? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1351 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestler, and a general's offer» 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 wa
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# Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…

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Sick, what is Kintaro's mum called in the story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sick, be, call · **To what, where:** mum, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1351 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestler, and a general's offer» 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/1351-pg4018-part11/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t10:1
# text = Sick, what is Kintaro's mum called in the story?
1	Sick	sick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Kintaro's mum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | Kintaro's mum *not said here* |  | the story |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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}

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Mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t10:o1:1
# text = Mother
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Yama-uba

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t10:o2:1
# text = Yama-uba
1	Yama	Yama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	uba	uba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The mountain witch Yama-uba

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t10:o3:1
# text = The mountain witch Yama-uba
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Yama	Yama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	uba	uba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	list	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yama-hime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t10:o4:1
# text = Yama-hime
1	Yama	Yama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	hime	hime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	list	_	_
```

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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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