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title: Mate, what made Kintaro's mum so happy? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what made Kintaro's mum so happy? Test 7 · ★ 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 was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…

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Mate, what made Kintaro's mum so happy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** mum

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t7:1
# text = Mate, what made Kintaro's mum so happy?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	4	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | Kintaro's mum |  |  |  | Mate *vocative*; happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material mum=Product |

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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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Her son's return

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t7:o1:1
# text = Her son's return
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** |  | Her son |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Her hope to see him wed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t7:o2:1
# text = Her hope to see him wed
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wed** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hope** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Her wish for him to be a samurai

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t7:o3:1
# text = Her wish for him to be a samurai
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	samurai	samurai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a samurai |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  | for him *= he* | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Her son's new red armour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1351-pg4018-part11:t7:o4:1
# text = Her son's new red armour
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	armour	armour	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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