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title: Pursuant to the narrative, which individual first concealed himself… — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pursuant to the narrative, which individual first concealed himself within the tree? Exam question 1 of lesson 1385 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Empress Jokwa, part 45: Kokai's flood and a miraculous road» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Em…

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Pursuant to the narrative, which individual first concealed himself within the tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** conceal · **To what, where:** himself

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1385 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Empress Jokwa, part 45: Kokai's flood and a miraculous road» 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/1385-pg4018-part45/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e1:1
# text = Pursuant to the narrative, which individual first concealed himself within the tree?
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	9	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	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
9	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | past |  | himself *= he* |  |  |  | to the narrative and which individual; within the tree; first, pursuant *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 {#o1}

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The first old man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e1:o1:1
# text = The first old man
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	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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The Oni

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e1:o2:1
# text = The Oni
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Oni	Oni	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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The white-haired elder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e1:o3:1
# text = The white-haired elder
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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The second old man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e1:o4:1
# text = The second old man
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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