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title: Bruv, what did the woodcutter try to beat Kintaro at? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the woodcutter try to beat Kintaro at? Test 3 · ★ 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 choic
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# Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…

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Bruv, what did the woodcutter try to beat Kintaro at?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, try, beat · **To what, where:** woodcutter, Kintaro

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t3:1
# text = Bruv, what did the woodcutter try to beat Kintaro at?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the woodcutter |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **beat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Kintaro |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kintaro=Theme |

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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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Racing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t3:o1:1
# text = Racing
1	Racing	racing	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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Arm-wrestling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t3:o2:1
# text = Arm-wrestling
1	Arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wrestling	wrestling	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 {#o3}

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Pulling a large tree up by the roots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t3:o3:1
# text = Pulling a large tree up by the roots
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull up** | gerund |  | a large tree |  |  |  | by the roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sumo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t3:o4:1
# text = Sumo
1	Sumo	sumo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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