--- title: Where'd they take the case, the magistrates? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds:… · tree and pragmatics description: Where'd they take the case, the magistrates? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as… Where'd they take the case, the magistrates? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** case This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» 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/134-pg11339-part4/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t7:1 # text = Where'd they take the case, the magistrates? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd 'd PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 magistrates magistrate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | they | the case | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument case=Theme magistrate=Destination | 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} Prison ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t7:o1:1 # text = Prison 1 Prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Home ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t7:o2:1 # text = Home 1 Home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} To the court ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t7:o3:1 # text = To the court 1 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} To the town hall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t7:o4:1 # text = To the town hall 1 To to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: [Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds:…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t6/) - next →: [Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds:…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t8/) - ↑ back to [Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/)