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title: be real, why did the brother want him gone? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter… · tree and pragmatics
description: be real, why did the brother want him gone? Test 10 · ★ 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 question and of e
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# Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

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be real, why did the brother want him gone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, brother, him · **What happens:** be, want, go · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t10:1
# text = be real, why did the brother want him gone?
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past · do-support | the brother | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | participle | him *= he* *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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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to take over the whole kingdom of the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t10:o1:1
# text = to take over the whole kingdom of the sea
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take over** | to-infinitive |  | the whole kingdom of the sea |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to take the throne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t10:o2:1
# text = to take the throne
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme |

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

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to rule Japan himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t10:o3:1
# text = to rule Japan himself
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	rule	rule	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | to-infinitive |  | Japan  Japan |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent japan=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to rule

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t10:o4:1
# text = to rule
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	rule	rule	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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