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title: no cap, what did the monkey swap for a persimmon-seed? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, what did the monkey swap for a persimmon-seed? Test 3 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young c…

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no cap, what did the monkey swap for a persimmon-seed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** monkey swap

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This is test 3 · ★ 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. 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:t3:1
# text = no cap, what did the monkey swap for a persimmon-seed?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	persimmon	persimmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no cap | the monkey swap |  |  |  | for a persimmon seed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swap=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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a fine rice-dumpling wrapped in leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:t3:o1:1
# text = a fine rice-dumpling wrapped in leaves
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	dumpling	dumpling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | participle |  | a fine rice dumpling *not said here* |  | leaves |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in leaf=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a sweet chestnut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:t3:o2:1
# text = a sweet chestnut
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rice-dumpling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:t3:o3:1
# text = a rice-dumpling
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	dumpling	dumpling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a rice cracker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1374-pg4018-part34:t3:o4:1
# text = a rice cracker
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cracker	cracker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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