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title: Bro, who was waiting at the Palace? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, who was waiting at the Palace? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1372 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly Fish: the monkey tricks the jelly fish and escapes» 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 wa
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# Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly Fish: the m…

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Bro, who was waiting at the Palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** wait · **To what, where:** Palace

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1372 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly Fish: the monkey tricks the jelly fish and escapes» 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/1372-pg4018-part32/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1372-pg4018-part32:t9:1
# text = Bro, who was waiting at the Palace?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · progressive | Bro |  |  | the Palace |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location |

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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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the Queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1372-pg4018-part32:t9:o1:1
# text = the Queen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the King and his servants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1372-pg4018-part32:t9:o2:1
# text = the King and his servants
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the doctor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1372-pg4018-part32:t9:o3:1
# text = the doctor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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the Dragon King and the doctor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1372-pg4018-part32:t9:o4:1
# text = the Dragon King and the doctor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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