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title: Which substance was released from the box when Urashima opened it? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which substance was released from the box when Urashima opened it? Exam question 1 of lesson 1617 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: the hare burns the Tanuki's back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: t…

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Which substance was released from the box when Urashima opened it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Urashima · **What happens:** release, open · **To what, where:** substance, box

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1617 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: the hare burns the Tanuki's back» 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/1617-pg5615-part6/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1617-pg5615-part6:e1:1
# text = Which substance was released from the box when Urashima opened it?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	Urashima	Urashima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | past · passive |  | which substance |  | the box |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **open** | past | Urashima | substance |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

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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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a grey cloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1617-pg5615-part6:e1:o1:1
# text = a grey cloud
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	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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a yellow mist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1617-pg5615-part6:e1:o2:1
# text = a yellow mist
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	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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smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1617-pg5615-part6:e1:o3:1
# text = smoke
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a purple vapour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1617-pg5615-part6:e1:o4:1
# text = a purple vapour
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vapour	vapour	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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