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title: Did the neighbor's ashes work on the tree, or was it a total fail? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the neighbor's ashes work on the tree, or was it a total fail? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

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Did the neighbor's ashes work on the tree, or was it a total fail?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ashes, tree · **What happens:** work, be · **To what, where:** total fail

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» 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/1370-pg4018-part30/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t4:1
# text = Did the neighbor's ashes work on the tree, or was it a total fail?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | the neighbor's ashes |  |  |  |  | on the tree | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tree=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | tree | a total fail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Total fail, not even a bud came forth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t4:o1:1
# text = Total fail, not even a bud came forth
1	Total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Total fail and a bud |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Total fail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t4:o2:1
# text = Total fail
1	Total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It worked fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t4:o3:1
# text = It worked fine
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | It |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Epic fail, the tree stayed bare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1370-pg4018-part30:t4:o4:1
# text = Epic fail, the tree stayed bare
1	Epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | Epic fail |  |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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