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title: Dead funny, what did the cat reckon the ogre's palace was? — Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Fal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead funny, what did the cat reckon the ogre's palace was? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1158 «Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, part 24: the stone is fished back out of the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, pa…

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Dead funny, what did the cat reckon the ogre's palace was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1158 «Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, part 24: the stone is fished back out of the sea» 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/1158-pg3027-part24/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t4:1
# text = Dead funny, what did the cat reckon the ogre's palace was?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · do-support | the cat |  |  |  |  | reckon *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A hole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t4:o1:1
# text = A hole
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A rat den

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t4:o2:1
# text = A rat den
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A nest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t4:o3:1
# text = A nest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A rat city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t4:o4:1
# text = A rat city
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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