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title: where is this devil island anyway, like how far — Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 4… · tree and pragmatics
description: where is this devil island anyway, like how far Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1380 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves home and gains a dog» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong
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# Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves h…

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where is this devil island anyway, like how far

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** devil island · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1380 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves home and gains a dog» 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/1380-pg4018-part40/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1380-pg4018-part40:t12:1
# text = where is this devil island anyway, like how far
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this devil island |  |  |  |  | anyway, where *property* | 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 {#o1}

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Northeast of Japan, far off the valley, past many mountains and rivers and a wide sea

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1380-pg4018-part40:t12:o1:1
# text = Northeast of Japan, far off the valley, past many mountains and rivers and a wide sea
1	Northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	past	past	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Northeast of Japan, far off the valley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1380-pg4018-part40:t12:o2:1
# text = Northeast of Japan, far off the valley
1	Northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Northeast of Japan, far off the valley, and it takes many days of walking to reach it

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1380-pg4018-part40:t12:o3:1
# text = Northeast of Japan, far off the valley, and it takes many days of walking to reach it
1	Northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Northeast of Japan and the valley |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | many days *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | many days *not said here* | valley |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Out past the sea to the north side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1380-pg4018-part40:t12:o4:1
# text = Out past the sea to the north side
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	past	past	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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