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title: Pursuant to the narrative, by whom was the ogre's arm severed? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pursuant to the narrative, by whom was the ogre's arm severed? Exam question 1 of lesson 1383 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake old nurse steals the arm back from its box» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake…

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Pursuant to the narrative, by whom was the ogre's arm severed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, sever · **To what, where:** arm

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1383 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake old nurse steals the arm back from its box» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1383-pg4018-part43/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:e1:1
# text = Pursuant to the narrative, by whom was the ogre's arm severed?
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
13	severed	sever	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the ogre's arm |  |  |  | by the narrative | tree rules |
| 2 | **sever** | participle |  | the ogre's arm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Watanabe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:e1:o1:1
# text = Watanabe
1	Watanabe	Watanabe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Raiko

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:e1:o2:1
# text = Raiko
1	Raiko	Raiko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yori

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:e1:o3:1
# text = Yori
1	Yori	Yori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Kintoki

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1383-pg4018-part43:e1:o4:1
# text = Kintoki
1	Kintoki	Kintoki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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