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title: Dude, did Kintaro's animal crew really climb trees to watch him go? — The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, did Kintaro's animal crew really climb trees to watch him go? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1352 «The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 12: Kintaro becomes a hero, and a stepmother plots poison» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 1 · ★ · The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 1…

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Dude, did Kintaro's animal crew really climb trees to watch him go?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude, animal crew, crew · **What happens:** do, climb, watch, go · **To what, where:** trees, crew

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1352 «The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 12: Kintaro becomes a hero, and a stepmother plots poison» 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/1352-pg4018-part12/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1352-pg4018-part12:t1:1
# text = Dude, did Kintaro's animal crew really climb trees to watch him go?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **climb** | present | Kintaro's animal crew | trees |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | Kintaro's animal crew *not said here* | crew |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | crew *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they totally did, every single one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1352-pg4018-part12:t1:o1:1
# text = Yeah, they totally did, every single one
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | they | every single one |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, no way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1352-pg4018-part12:t1:o2:1
# text = Nope, no way
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they totally did, every single one of the animals climbed up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1352-pg4018-part12:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, they totally did, every single one of the animals climbed up
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | they | every single one of the animals |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
| 2 | **climb up** | participle |  | the animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they just stood at the bottom, lowkey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1352-pg4018-part12:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, they just stood at the bottom, lowkey
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | they |  |  | the bottom and lowkey |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location |

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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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