---
title: Bro, why did the monkey's owner wanna sell him off? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Ad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, why did the monkey's owner wanna sell him off? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1364 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the priest flees the haunted house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1364-pg4018-part24/t3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Ad…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1364-pg4018-part24/) / t3

# Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the prie…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bro, why did the monkey's owner wanna sell him off?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, wanna, sell off · **To what, where:** owner, Bro

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1364 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the priest flees the haunted house» 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/1364-pg4018-part24/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t3:1
# text = Bro, why did the monkey's owner wanna sell him off?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	wanna	wanna	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the monkey's owner |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wanna** | past | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell off** | infinitive | Bro *not said here* |  | Bro |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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 -->
because he had grown old and could no longer dance for crowds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t3:o1:1
# text = because he had grown old and could no longer dance for crowds
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | he |  |  |  |  | for crowds; old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he was too old and had lost all his tricks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t3:o2:1
# text = he was too old and had lost all his tricks
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect | he *not said here* | his tricks |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality |
| 3 | **trick** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he bit people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t3:o3:1
# text = he bit people
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | past | he | people |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he was too old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t3:o4:1
# text = he was too old
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Ad…, test 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1364-pg4018-part24/t2/)
- next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Ad…, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1364-pg4018-part24/t4/)
- ↑ back to [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the priest flees the haunted house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1364-pg4018-part24/)