--- title: Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Books description: The 18 test and exam questions of lesson 1671 «Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60: the old man's gift and the greedy wife's trip» of the books course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the S… # Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60: the old man's gift and the greedy wife's trip The 18 questions of lesson 1671 «Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60: the old man's gift and the greedy wife's trip» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 94 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1671-pg5615-part60/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t1/) — Dude, why did the wife go totally mental at the poor bird? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t2/) — Wait, so the bird got its tongue slit? That's proper harsh, innit? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t3/) — Okay but how did the old man even find the bird again? — right ✓ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t4/) — Was the garden lush or what? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t5/) — Hang on, the bird turned into a girl? Mad, right? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t6/) — What did the old man choose, the big chest or the small one? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t7/) — What was in the chest? Like, was it wicked? — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t8/) — The wife got the gold too, yeah? Was she chuffed? — right ✓ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t9/) — So why did the wife get lost on her way there? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t10/) — Did she make it to the sparrow's place without trouble? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t11/) — Was the wife nice to the girl when she got there? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t12/) — Was the wife made to wait for her present? — right ✓ · ★ - [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t13/) — Did the old man get a happy ending or what? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/t14/) — What's the big lesson, like? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/e1/) — In what manner does the old wife, having obtained the greater chest, proceed upon her homeward journey? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/e2/) — Which motive is principally ascribed to the wife in the account of the second chest? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/e3/) — What circumstance is cited as the cause of the wife's delay in reaching the sparrow-princess's house? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1671-pg5615-part60/e4/) — How does the narrator characterise the old husband's conduct in the course of the foregoing passage? — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [1670. Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1670-pg5615-part59/) - next →: [1672. Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1672-pg5615-part61/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/)