---
title: so like why was the fisher so salty? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter… · tree and pragmatics
description: so like why was the fisher so salty? Test 5 · ★ 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 each opti
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1365-pg4018-part25/t5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Happy Hunter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1365-pg4018-part25/) / t5

# Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
so like why was the fisher so salty?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t5:1
# text = so like why was the fisher so salty?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like the fisher | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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 -->
he was bad tempered

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t5:o1:1
# text = he was bad tempered
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **temper** | participle | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he hated his brother and wanted him dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t5:o2:1
# text = he hated his brother and wanted him dead
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past | he | his brother |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 2 | **want** | past | he *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he was always angry and wanted revenge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t5:o3:1
# text = he was always angry and wanted revenge
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | always, angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | he *not said here* | revenge |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he was quite cruel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:t5:o4:1
# text = he was quite cruel
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter…, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1365-pg4018-part25/t4/)
- next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1365-pg4018-part25/t6/)
- ↑ back to [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1365-pg4018-part25/)