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title: Fr, what does the jelly fish promise to do for the monkey? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, what does the jelly fish promise to do for the monkey? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1371 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part 31: the jelly fish tricks a monkey into going to the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…

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Fr, what does the jelly fish promise to do for the monkey?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr, jelly fish · **What happens:** do, promise

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1371 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part 31: the jelly fish tricks a monkey into going to the sea» 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/1371-pg4018-part31/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t11:1
# text = Fr, what does the jelly fish promise to do for the monkey?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Fr |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | the jelly fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the jelly fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the monkey | 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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guide the boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t11:o1:1
# text = guide the boat
1	guide	guide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guide** | imperative | you *not said here* | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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carry him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t11:o2:1
# text = carry him
1	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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feed him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t11:o3:1
# text = feed him
1	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
```

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

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

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keep him safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t11:o4:1
# text = keep him safe
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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