--- title: why'd the jewelers come knocking, fr? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutte… · tree and pragmatics description: why'd the jewelers come knocking, fr? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1357 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonlight, part 17: a fake bowl is sent back and a fake branch is found out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1357-pg4018-part17/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutte…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1357-pg4018-part17/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonl… why'd the jewelers come knocking, fr? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** jewelers · **What happens:** come, knock · **To what, where:** fr This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1357 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonlight, part 17: a fake bowl is sent back and a fake branch is found out» 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/1357-pg4018-part17/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t12:1 # text = why'd the jewelers come knocking, fr? 1 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd 'd PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 jewelers jeweler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 knocking knock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 fr fr NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | the jewelers | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **knock** | gerund | the jewelers *not said here* | fr | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fr=Patient | 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} To get paid, obviously ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t12:o1:1 # text = To get paid, obviously 1 To to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 2 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 obviously obviously ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | obviously *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | ### Option 2 {#o2} To gossip ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t12:o2:1 # text = To gossip 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 gossip gossip VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gossip** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} They wanted their pay ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t12:o3:1 # text = They wanted their pay 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | They | their pay | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pay=Theme | | 2 | **pay** | | their *= they* | | | | | | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} They wanted their money ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1357-pg4018-part17:t12:o4:1 # text = They wanted their money 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | They | their money | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme | **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. 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