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title: Proper sick, what did the rats chuck at the cat to wake her? — Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Fal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper sick, what did the rats chuck at the cat to wake her? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, pa…

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Proper sick, what did the rats chuck at the cat to wake her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rats · **What happens:** do, chuck, wake · **To what, where:** cat

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t9:1
# text = Proper sick, what did the rats chuck at the cat to wake her?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	chuck	chuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chuck** | present | the rats |  |  |  |  | at the cat | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at cat=Destination |
| 3 | **wake** | to-infinitive | the rats *not said here* | cat |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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Ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t9:o1:1
# text = Ash
1	Ash	ash	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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Milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t9:o2:1
# text = Milk
1	Milk	milk	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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Stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t9:o3:1
# text = Stones
1	Stones	stone	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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Water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1158-pg3027-part24:t9:o4:1
# text = Water
1	Water	water	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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