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title: Bro, how did the monkey finally get on the jelly fish's back? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, how did the monkey finally get on the jelly fish's back? Test 9 · ★ 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 qu
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# Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…

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Bro, how did the monkey finally get on the jelly fish's back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** monkey, back

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t9:1
# text = Bro, how did the monkey finally get on the jelly fish's back?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the monkey |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | present |  |  |  | the jelly fish's back |  | finally *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source |

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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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he was tied on tight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t9:o1:1
# text = he was tied on tight
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  | on tight | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on tight=Co-Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he slid off the shell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t9:o2:1
# text = he slid off the shell
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide off** | past | he | the shell |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Agent |

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

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he hopped on and held on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t9:o3:1
# text = he hopped on and held on
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop on** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold on** | participle | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he hopped on and held on tight to the shell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:t9:o4:1
# text = he hopped on and held on tight to the shell
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop on** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | participle | he *not said here* |  |  | tight |  | to the shell | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location |

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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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