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title: What did the son eat to survive, like, for real? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the son eat to survive, like, for real? Test 7 · ★ 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; Mov
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# Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

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What did the son eat to survive, like, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** son · **What happens:** eat, survive

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t7:1
# text = What did the son eat to survive, like, for real?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · do-support | the son |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **survive** | to-infinitive | the son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Mushrooms and roots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t7:o1:1
# text = Mushrooms and roots
1	Mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t7:o2:1
# text = Fish
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Nuts and berries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t7:o3:1
# text = Nuts and berries
1	Nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Acorns and wild herbs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t7:o4:1
# text = Acorns and wild herbs
1	Acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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