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title: In Tom and Jerry, Jerry is almost as big as Tom's paw. About how man… — Tom and Jerry: do real cats really cha… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Tom and Jerry, Jerry is almost as big as Tom's paw. About how many times heavier is a real cat than a mouse? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 118 «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?

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In Tom and Jerry, Jerry is almost as big as Tom's paw. About how many times heavier is a real cat than a mouse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jerry · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Tom, heavier real cat

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 118 «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology 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/biology/118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In Tom and Jerry, Jerry is almost as big as Tom's paw.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t5:1
# text = In Tom and Jerry, Jerry is almost as big as Tom's paw.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Jerry |  |  | Tom and Jerry |  | as Tom's paw; almost, big *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* About how many times heavier is a real cat than a mouse?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t5:2
# text = About how many times heavier is a real cat than a mouse?
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a heavier real cat |  |  |  | than a mouse | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 20,000 times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t5:o1:1
# text = About 20,000 times
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t5:o2:1
# text = About the same
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 2 times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t5:o3:1
# text = About 2 times
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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About 200 times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice:t5:o4:1
# text = About 200 times
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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