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title: What was the son going on about with his powers? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the son going on about with his powers? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

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What was the son going on about with his powers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** son · **What happens:** be, go on

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t8:1
# text = What was the son going on about with his powers?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the son |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | gerund | the son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with his powers; about *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Said he's a wizard as good as dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t8:o1:1
# text = Said he's a wizard as good as dad
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | he | a wizard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Said he's better at magic than dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t8:o2:1
# text = Said he's better at magic than dad
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	ccomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | he |  |  | magic |  | than dad; good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Said he can fly and turn invisible and beat the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t8:o3:1
# text = Said he can fly and turn invisible and beat the king
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** | can | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beat** | past |  | the king |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Said he knows every spell in the forest and can talk to the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:713-pg2435-part53:t8:o4:1
# text = Said he knows every spell in the forest and can talk to the moon
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | present | he | every spell |  | the forest |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spell=Stimulus |
| 3 | **talk** | can | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the moon | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to moon=Co-Agent |

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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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