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title: so the monkey was the one minding the chief? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the la… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the monkey was the one minding the chief? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1382 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro storms the Demon King's castle, frees the captives and takes the devil chief home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…

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so the monkey was the one minding the chief?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** monkey, one · **What happens:** be, mind · **To what, where:** one, chief

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1382 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro storms the Demon King's castle, frees the captives and takes the devil chief home» 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/1382-pg4018-part42/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1382-pg4018-part42:t4:1
# text = so the monkey was the one minding the chief?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	minding	mind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the monkey | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mind** | gerund | the one *not said here* | the chief |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, he was napping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1382-pg4018-part42:t4:o1:1
# text = nah, he was napping
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	napping	nap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nap** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, lookout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1382-pg4018-part42:t4:o2:1
# text = yeah, lookout
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lookout	lookout	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 -->
yeah, he was on guard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1382-pg4018-part42:t4:o3:1
# text = yeah, he was on guard
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  | guard |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, he was busy eating

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1382-pg4018-part42:t4:o4:1
# text = nah, he was busy eating
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | he | busy eating |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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