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title: Mate, did the donkey like being a washerman's donkey or nah? — Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, did the donkey like being a washerman's donkey or nah? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1284 «Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey tells the shark how a greedy donkey was tricked by a hare and a lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 1 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mate, did the donkey like being a washerman's donkey or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** donkey

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1284 «Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey tells the shark how a greedy donkey was tricked by a hare and a lion» 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/1284-pg3454-part9/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t1:1
# text = Mate, did the donkey like being a washerman's donkey or nah?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	washerman	washerman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | the donkey |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like a washerman's donkey | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she legged it to the woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t1:o1:1
# text = Nah, she legged it to the woods
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	legged	leg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leg** | past | she | it |  |  |  | to the woods | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she hated it and bunked off deep into the forest where nobody could find her

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t1:o2:1
# text = Nah, she hated it and bunked off deep into the forest where nobody could find her
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bunked	bunk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	compound	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past | she | it |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bunk off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | could | nobody | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she bunked off into the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t1:o3:1
# text = Nah, she bunked off into the forest
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bunked	bunk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bunk off** | past | she |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she did a runner somewhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, she did a runner somewhere
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | she | a runner |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Eventuality |

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