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title: wait so where did the old man find the dog's grave? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait so where did the old man find the dog's grave? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1369 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy neighbour borrows the magic mortar and breaks it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

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wait so where did the old man find the dog's grave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, old man · **What happens:** wait, find · **To what, where:** grave

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1369 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy neighbour borrows the magic mortar and breaks it» 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/1369-pg4018-part29/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:t5:1
# text = wait so where did the old man find the dog's grave?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past · do-support | the old man | the dog's grave |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Topic |

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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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under the bamboo hedge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:t5:o1:1
# text = under the bamboo hedge
1	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
under the yenoki tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:t5:o2:1
# text = under the yenoki tree
1	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	yenoki	yenoki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	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 -->
under the yenoki tree where Shiro had dug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:t5:o3:1
# text = under the yenoki tree where Shiro had dug
1	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	yenoki	yenoki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	Shiro	Shiro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | past · perfect | Shiro |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
under the yenoki tree in the old man's field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1369-pg4018-part29:t5:o4:1
# text = under the yenoki tree in the old man's field
1	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	yenoki	yenoki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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