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title: was yamato a kid or nah? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Pri… · tree and pragmatics
description: was yamato a kid or nah? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1376 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Prince Yamato Take, part 1: a prince dresses as a lady to trick and slay a rebel chief» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Prince Yamato Take, par…

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was yamato a kid or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1376 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Prince Yamato Take, part 1: a prince dresses as a lady to trick and slay a rebel chief» 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/1376-pg4018-part36/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1376-pg4018-part36:t6:1
# text = was yamato a kid or nah?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	yamato	yamato	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	dep	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Maybe like twelve, a kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1376-pg4018-part36:t6:o1:1
# text = Maybe like twelve, a kid
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thirty, a whole adult dude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1376-pg4018-part36:t6:o2:1
# text = Thirty, a whole adult dude
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Young, like ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1376-pg4018-part36:t6:o3:1
# text = Young, like ten
1	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Sixteen, grown by the rules

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1376-pg4018-part36:t6:o4:1
# text = Sixteen, grown by the rules
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the rules | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rule=Location |

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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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