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title: Lol, what did the friend tell Jimmu to do first? — Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the friend tell Jimmu to do first? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 724 «Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a tanuki and makes its owner rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 8 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…

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Lol, what did the friend tell Jimmu to do first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** tell, do · **To what, where:** Jimmu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 724 «Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a tanuki and makes its owner rich» 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/724-pg2435-part64/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:724-pg2435-part64:t8:1
# text = Lol, what did the friend tell Jimmu to do first?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the friend |  | Jimmu |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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feed the tanuki

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:724-pg2435-part64:t8:o1:1
# text = feed the tanuki
1	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | imperative | you *not said here* | the tanuki |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tanuki=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ask the neighbours for money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:724-pg2435-part64:t8:o2:1
# text = ask the neighbours for money
1	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the neighbours |  |  |  | for money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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close the shop for the day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:724-pg2435-part64:t8:o3:1
# text = close the shop for the day
1	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | the shop |  |  | day |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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ask the tanuki's permission

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:724-pg2435-part64:t8:o4:1
# text = ask the tanuki's permission
1	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the tanuki's permission |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient |
| 2 | **permit** |  | the tanuki |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=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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