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title: what was the sake?? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man with… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the sake?? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1384 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man with the Wen, part 44: the old man dances for the demons and loses his wen, and his wicked neighbour sets out to copy him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man with the Wen, part 44: t…

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what was the sake??

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sake · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1384 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man with the Wen, part 44: the old man dances for the demons and loses his wen, and his wicked neighbour sets out to copy him» 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/1384-pg4018-part44/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1384-pg4018-part44:t11:1
# text = what was the sake??
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the sake |  |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sweet fruit juice, bruh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1384-pg4018-part44:t11:o1:1
# text = a sweet fruit juice, bruh
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rice wine, like a fancy drink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1384-pg4018-part44:t11:o2:1
# text = a rice wine, like a fancy drink
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a rice wine, like a fancy drink that people sip at parties all night

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1384-pg4018-part44:t11:o3:1
# text = a rice wine, like a fancy drink that people sip at parties all night
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sip	sip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sip** | present | people | a fancy drink |  | parties | night |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rice wine, like a really fancy drink the demons loved

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1384-pg4018-part44:t11:o4:1
# text = a rice wine, like a really fancy drink the demons loved
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | infinitive | a rice wine *not said here* | the demons |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Patient |
| 2 | **love** | participle |  | the demons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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