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title: lowkey, what was Kokai's whole deal? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey, what was Kokai's whole deal? Test 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 the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Em…

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lowkey, what was Kokai's whole deal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lowkey · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** whole deal

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This is test 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t4:1
# text = lowkey, what was Kokai's whole deal?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	Kokai	Kokai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | lowkey | Kokai's whole deal |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He was a wizard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t4:o1:1
# text = He was a wizard
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | He | a wizard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He was a soldier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t4:o2:1
# text = He was a soldier
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | He | a soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He was a wizard who had served the old Emperor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t4:o3:1
# text = He was a wizard who had served the old Emperor
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | He | a wizard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | past · perfect | a wizard | the old Emperor |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He was a wizard who ruled the western river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t4:o4:1
# text = He was a wizard who ruled the western river
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | He | a wizard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rule** | past | a wizard | the western river |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme |

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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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