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title: wait, why did the monkey bail with her baby? — Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, why did the monkey bail with her baby? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1670 «Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the hare tricks the lion, then the hyaenas» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 2 · ★ · Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the h…

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wait, why did the monkey bail with her baby?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, do · **To what, where:** monkey bail

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1670 «Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the hare tricks the lion, then the hyaenas» 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/1670-pg5615-part59/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1670-pg5615-part59:t2:1
# text = wait, why did the monkey bail with her baby?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bail	bail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | you *not said here* | the monkey bail |  |  |  | with her baby | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bail=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cuz the lion's nose twitched when she tickled it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1670-pg5615-part59:t2:o1:1
# text = Cuz the lion's nose twitched when she tickled it
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	twitched	twitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tickled	tickle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twitch** | past | Cuz |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tickle** | past | Cuz | nose |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cuz she was hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1670-pg5615-part59:t2:o2:1
# text = Cuz she was hungry
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cuz | Cuz *not said here* |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cuz the lion sneezed and woke up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1670-pg5615-part59:t2:o3:1
# text = Cuz the lion sneezed and woke up
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneeze** | past | Cuz |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wake up** | past | Cuz *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cuz she thought the lion would wake and eat her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1670-pg5615-part59:t2:o4:1
# text = Cuz she thought the lion would wake and eat her
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Cuz |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **wake** | would | the lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** | infinitive | the lion *not said here* | lion |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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