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title: Which brother proposed the exchange of occupations? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which brother proposed the exchange of occupations? Exam question 1 of lesson 1365 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

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Which brother proposed the exchange of occupations?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** propose, exchange · **To what, where:** exchange, occupations

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1365 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1365-pg4018-part25/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e1:1
# text = Which brother proposed the exchange of occupations?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	occupations	occupation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | which brother | the exchange of occupations |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exchange=Theme |
| 2 | **exchange** |  |  | occupations |  |  |  |  | nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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The Skillful Fisher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e1:o1:1
# text = The Skillful Fisher
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Skillful	skillful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fisher	Fisher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The old man from the sea palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e1:o2:1
# text = The old man from the sea palace
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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The Happy Hunter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e1:o3:1
# text = The Happy Hunter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The elder brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e1:o4:1
# text = The elder brother
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	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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