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title: By what means did the wizard Kokai produce the flood which separated… — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the wizard Kokai produce the flood which separated the two Generals from the army? Exam question 4 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
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# Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Em…

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By what means did the wizard Kokai produce the flood which separated the two Generals from the army?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wizard Kokai, flood · **What happens:** mean, produce, separate · **To what, where:** flood, two Generals

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e4:1
# text = By what means did the wizard Kokai produce the flood which separated the two Generals from the army?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Kokai	Kokai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	separated	separate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	Generals	General	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **produce** | past · do-support | the wizard Kokai | the flood |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Result |
| 3 | **separate** | past | the flood | the two Generals |  |  |  | from the army | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent general=Patient from army=Co-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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With a wand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e4:o1:1
# text = With a wand
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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By stretching forth his wand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e4:o2:1
# text = By stretching forth his wand
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | gerund |  | his wand |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wand=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e4:o3:1
# text = By magic
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	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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By calling up the river tides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:e4:o4:1
# text = By calling up the river tides
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call up** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the river tides |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tide=Recipient |

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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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