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title: do the monkeys ever actually finish what they start? — The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: do the monkeys ever actually finish what they start? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 606 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys snatch Mowgli and swing off with him through the treetops» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…

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do the monkeys ever actually finish what they start?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, monkeys · **What happens:** do, finish, start

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 606 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys snatch Mowgli and swing off with him through the treetops» 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/606-pg236-part7/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:t9:1
# text = do the monkeys ever actually finish what they start?
1	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	finish	finish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **finish** | present | the monkeys |  |  |  | ever | actually *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **start** | present | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 {#o1}

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yeah, they finish most jobs they start

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:t9:o1:1
# text = yeah, they finish most jobs they start
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	finish	finish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | present | they | jobs |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality job=Eventuality |
| 2 | **start** | present | jobs *= job* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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nah, they never do what they set out to do and they never stop talking about it

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:t9:o2:1
# text = nah, they never do what they set out to do and they never stop talking about it
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set out** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **stop** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about it | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, they never do what they set out to do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:t9:o3:1
# text = nah, they never do what they set out to do
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set out** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, they start loads but never really finish stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:606-pg236-part7:t9:o4:1
# text = nah, they start loads but never really finish stuff
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | they | loads |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **finish** | infinitive | they *not said here* | stuff |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stuff=Eventuality |

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