--- title: Wait, the coachman was a rat? That's so random! — Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16:… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, the coachman was a rat? That's so random! Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1429 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end and Cinderella's wish for the ball» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1429-pg503-part16/t12/) [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/) / [Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1429-pg503-part16/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end an… Wait, the coachman was a rat? That's so random! **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, coachman, That · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** rat This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1429 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end and Cinderella's wish for the ball» 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/1429-pg503-part16/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Wait, the coachman was a rat? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t12:1 # text = Wait, the coachman was a rat? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 coachman coachman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | the coachman | a rat | | | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* That's so random! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t12:2 # text = That's so random! 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 random random ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | random *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Nope, one of three cats ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t12:o1:1 # text = Nope, one of three cats 1 Nope nope INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, one of six lizards ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t12:o2:1 # text = Yeah, one of six lizards 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Yeah, one of three huge rats that the fairy changed with her wand ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t12:o3:1 # text = Yeah, one of three huge rats that the fairy changed with her wand 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | past | the fairy | three huge rats | | | | with fairy's wand | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent that=Theme with wand=Co-Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Yeah, one of three huge rats ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t12:o4:1 # text = Yeah, one of three huge rats 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` 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. 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