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title: Which feigned condition does the tanuki adopt in order to be sold? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which feigned condition does the tanuki adopt in order to be sold? Exam question 1 of lesson 713 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki sells his wife, and his son takes revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

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Which feigned condition does the tanuki adopt in order to be sold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tanuki · **What happens:** feign, adopt, sell · **To what, where:** condition

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 713 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki sells his wife, and his son takes revenge» 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/713-pg2435-part53/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:e1:1
# text = Which feigned condition does the tanuki adopt in order to be sold?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feigned	feign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	adopt	adopt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
9	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	fixed	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feign** | past |  | condition |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Patient |
| 2 | **adopt** | present · do-support | the tanuki |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive · passive | the tanuki *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» |

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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 {#o1}

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Acting as though he is a harmless village dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:e1:o1:1
# text = Acting as though he is a harmless village dog
1	Acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	though	though	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | though he | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Acting | a harmless village dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Feigning death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:e1:o2:1
# text = Feigning death
1	Feigning	feign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feign** | gerund |  | death |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Faking a limp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:e1:o3:1
# text = Faking a limp
1	Faking	fake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	limp	limp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fake** | gerund |  | a limp |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limp=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pretending to be a sleeping dead tree stump

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:e1:o4:1
# text = Pretending to be a sleeping dead tree stump
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a sleeping and dead tree stump |  |  |  |  | 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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