--- title: Wait, what was the monkey actually sitting on? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what was the monkey actually sitting on? Test 6 · ★ 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 question and of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1371-pg4018-part31/t6/) [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 Monkey and t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1371-pg4018-part31/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part… Wait, what was the monkey actually sitting on? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, monkey · **What happens:** wait, be, sit on · **To what, where:** monkey This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t6:1 # text = Wait, what was the monkey actually sitting on? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 actually actually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 9 on on ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | | the monkey | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sit on** | gerund | the monkey *not said here* | | | | | actually *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} a willow limb ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t6:o1:1 # text = a willow limb 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 limb limb NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} a pine branch ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t6:o2:1 # text = a pine branch 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a high pine branch over the water ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t6:o3:1 # text = a high pine branch over the water 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a thick pine branch hanging over the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t6:o4:1 # text = a thick pine branch hanging over the sea 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | gerund | a thick pine branch *not said here* | | | the sea | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Location | **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. 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