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title: did the jackal go down the fish's throat too? — Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the jackal go down the fish's throat too? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1826 «Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab tricks the crane, then Laili jumps into a fish» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab trick…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
did the jackal go down the fish's throat too?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** jackal · **What happens:** go down · **To what, where:** throat

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1826 «Indian Fairy Tales, Prince Majnun, part 10: the crab tricks the crane, then Laili jumps into a fish» 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/1826-pg7128-part10/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1826-pg7128-part10:t7:1
# text = did the jackal go down the fish's throat too?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past · do-support | the jackal | the fish's throat |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient throat=Extent |

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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 -->
yeah, and he came straight back up scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1826-pg7128-part10:t7:o1:1
# text = yeah, and he came straight back up scared
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | he |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, and he came straight back up scared and never went near that fish again

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1826-pg7128-part10:t7:o2:1
# text = yeah, and he came straight back up scared and never went near that fish again
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **go** | past | he *not said here* |  |  |  | again | near that fish | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near fish=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, he went all the way down and then came straight back up quite scared

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1826-pg7128-part10:t7:o3:1
# text = yeah, he went all the way down and then came straight back up quite scared
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | he | all way |  |  |  | down *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | he *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, and he ran off the other way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1826-pg7128-part10:t7:o4:1
# text = yeah, and he ran off the other way
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | past | he | the other way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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