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title: How'd the tanuki get out the buyer's house? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: How'd the tanuki get out the buyer's house? Test 3 · ★ 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 c
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# Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

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How'd the tanuki get out the buyer's house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tanuki · **What happens:** get out · **To what, where:** house

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t3:1
# text = How'd the tanuki get out the buyer's house?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	buyer	buyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | would | the tanuki | the buyer's house |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |

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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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Squeezed through a window gap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t3:o1:1
# text = Squeezed through a window gap
1	Squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | participle |  |  |  | a window gap |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Crawled under the front gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t3:o2:1
# text = Crawled under the front gate
1	Crawled	crawl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | participle |  |  |  | the front gate |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under gate=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Used a magic spell to vanish into thin air and reappear outside the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t3:o3:1
# text = Used a magic spell to vanish into thin air and reappear outside the house
1	Used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	reappear	reappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past |  | a magic spell |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient |
| 2 | **vanish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | thin air |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reappear** | infinitive |  |  |  | the house |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside house=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Snuck out by pretending to be the buyer's son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t3:o4:1
# text = Snuck out by pretending to be the buyer's son
1	Snuck	snuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	buyer	buyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snuck out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pretend** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the buyer's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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