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title: Proper random, what did the general want Kintaro for? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper random, what did the general want Kintaro for? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…

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Proper random, what did the general want Kintaro for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** general · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** Kintaro

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t6:1
# text = Proper random, what did the general want Kintaro for?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** | present | the general | Kintaro |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To train as a samurai in the emperor's palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t6:o1:1
# text = To train as a samurai in the emperor's palace
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	train	train	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	samurai	samurai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the emperor's palace |  | as a samurai | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as samurai=Attribute |

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

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To train as a samurai

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t6:o2:1
# text = To train as a samurai
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	train	train	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	samurai	samurai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as a samurai | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as samurai=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To carry his sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t6:o3:1
# text = To carry his sword
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  | his sword |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To guard the emperor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t6:o4:1
# text = To guard the emperor
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	guard	guard	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | to-infinitive |  |  | the emperor |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Beneficiary |

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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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