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description: For what occasion did the monkey, by invitation, attend the residence of the young crab? Exam question 2 of lesson 1374 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young crab takes revenge on the monkey who killed his father» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young c…

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For what occasion did the monkey, by invitation, attend the residence of the young crab?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** occasion, you · **What happens:** do, attend · **To what, where:** monkey, residence

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1374 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young crab takes revenge on the monkey who killed his father» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1374-pg4018-part34/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:e2:1
# text = For what occasion did the monkey, by invitation, attend the residence of the young crab?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	attend	attend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | occasion | the monkey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** | imperative | you *not said here* | the residence of the young crab |  |  |  | by invitation | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme residence=Goal |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the first anniversary of the crab's decease

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:e2:o1:1
# text = the first anniversary of the crab's decease
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	decease	decease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decease** |  | the crab |  |  |  |  |  | nom decease «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the first anniversary of a crab's wedding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:e2:o2:1
# text = the first anniversary of a crab's wedding
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wed** |  | a crab |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the funeral rites of the crab's entire ancestral household line

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:e2:o3:1
# text = the funeral rites of the crab's entire ancestral household line
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	ancestral	ancestral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the first anniversary of the crab's decease and his tomb blessing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:e2:o4:1
# text = the first anniversary of the crab's decease and his tomb blessing
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	decease	decease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decease** |  | the crab |  |  |  |  |  | nom decease «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 2 | **bless** |  | crab |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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