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title: By what means did Catherine come to cut off half of her clothing? — Household Tales, Frederick and Catheri… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did Catherine come to cut off half of her clothing? Exam question 1 of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Exam question 1 · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee fro…

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By what means did Catherine come to cut off half of her clothing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Catherine · **What happens:** mean, come, cut off · **To what, where:** half

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/108-pg11027-part11/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:e1:1
# text = By what means did Catherine come to cut off half of her clothing?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past · do-support | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by what=Location |
| 3 | **cut off** | to-infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | half of Catherine's clothing |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector half=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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By accident

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:e1:o1:1
# text = By accident
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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By sleeping over her meal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:e1:o2:1
# text = By sleeping over her meal
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  | her meal |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Asleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:e1:o3:1
# text = Asleep
1	Asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Through working all day long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:e1:o4:1
# text = Through working all day long
1	Through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day | long *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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