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title: ok so what did the white-haired old man do? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so what did the white-haired old man do? Test 10 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Em…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ok so what did the white-haired old man do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** haired old man · **What happens:** do

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t10:1
# text = ok so what did the white-haired old man do?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | the haired old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He made the flood split into a road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t10:o1:1
# text = He made the flood split into a road
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | He | the flood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Product |
| 2 | **split** | participle |  | the flood *not said here* |  |  |  | into a road *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into road=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He made the flood split in two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t10:o2:1
# text = He made the flood split in two
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | He | the flood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Product |
| 2 | **split** | participle |  | the flood *not said here* |  | two |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He made the flood split into a dry road for the army

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t10:o3:1
# text = He made the flood split into a dry road for the army
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | He | the flood |  |  |  | for the army | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent flood=Product for army=Asset |
| 2 | **split** | participle |  | the flood *not said here* |  |  |  | into a dry road *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into road=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He made the flood part like a red sea and then fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t10:o4:1
# text = He made the flood part like a red sea and then fall
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | He | the flood part |  |  |  | like a red sea | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Product |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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