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title: Bro, what did Kintaro promise to do for his mum? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did Kintaro promise to do for his mum? Test 13 · ★ 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 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…

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Bro, what did Kintaro promise to do for his mum?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kintaro · **What happens:** promise, do · **To what, where:** Bro

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t13:1
# text = Bro, what did Kintaro promise to do for his mum?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mum	mum	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 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | Kintaro | Bro |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kintaro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Kintaro's mum | vn act-114-1 «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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Bring her gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t13:o1:1
# text = Bring her gold
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | gold | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination gold=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Visit her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t13:o2:1
# text = Visit her
1	Visit	visit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stay home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t13:o3:1
# text = Stay home
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Build her a home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t13:o4:1
# text = Build her a home
1	Build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | imperative | you *not said here* | a home | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary home=Product |

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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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