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title: What happened to the dad at the end, lol? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What happened to the dad at the end, lol? Test 12 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

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What happened to the dad at the end, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen · **To what, where:** end

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t12:1
# text = What happened to the dad at the end, lol?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  | at the end | to the dad | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location |

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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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Caught by the guards and jailed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t12:o1:1
# text = Caught by the guards and jailed
1	Caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	jailed	jail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the guards | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **jail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fled into the forest alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t12:o2:1
# text = Fled into the forest alone
1	Fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | participle |  |  |  | the forest |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |

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

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Chucked in the river by guards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t12:o3:1
# text = Chucked in the river by guards
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | participle |  |  |  | the river |  | by guards | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in river=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Locked up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t12:o4:1
# text = Locked up
1	Locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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