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title: bro, what did the arrow touch first? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what did the arrow touch first? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Em…

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bro, what did the arrow touch first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** arrow touch

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t8:1
# text = bro, what did the arrow touch first?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | arrow touch |  |  |  | bro *vocative*; first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=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 {#o1}

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His shield

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t8:o1:1
# text = His shield
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	shield	shield	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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Eiko's iron helmet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t8:o2:1
# text = Eiko's iron helmet
1	Eiko	Eiko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Eiko's helmet strings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t8:o3:1
# text = Eiko's helmet strings
1	Eiko	Eiko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Hako's coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1385-pg4018-part45:t8:o4:1
# text = Hako's coat
1	Hako	Hako	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	coat	coat	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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