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title: Wait, why'd the Tanuki jump in the big boat, bruh? — pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, why'd the Tanuki jump in the big boat, bruh? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1618 «pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns the Tanuki, then a poor merchant's son flies off to the Turks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 2 · ★ · pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns th…

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Wait, why'd the Tanuki jump in the big boat, bruh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1618 «pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns the Tanuki, then a poor merchant's son flies off to the Turks» 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/1618-pg5615-part7/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t2:1
# text = Wait, why'd the Tanuki jump in the big boat, bruh?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cause he thought it'd hold more fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t2:o1:1
# text = Cause he thought it'd hold more fish
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | would | it | more fish |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cause it looked like a safer boat to him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t2:o2:1
# text = Cause it looked like a safer boat to him
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | it |  | him *= he* |  |  | like a safer boat | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Cause he wanted to catch a whale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t2:o3:1
# text = Cause he wanted to catch a whale
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | he | Cause *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Cause *not said here* | a whale |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cause he was scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1618-pg5615-part7:t2:o4:1
# text = Cause he was scared
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |

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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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