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title: what did he call the cats and dogs when they came swarming? — Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Wen… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did he call the cats and dogs when they came swarming? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» of the books course of Mova's primary school,
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# Test 13 · ★ · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

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what did he call the cats and dogs when they came swarming?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he, cats · **What happens:** call, come, swarm · **To what, where:** cats · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» 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/1435-pg503-part22/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t13:1
# text = what did he call the cats and dogs when they came swarming?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	swarming	swarm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | he | the cats and dogs |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme cat=Result |
| 2 | **come** | past | cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swarm** | gerund | cats *= cat* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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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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Wild beasts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t13:o1:1
# text = Wild beasts
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rabble rout, the beasts of the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t13:o2:1
# text = Rabble rout, the beasts of the castle
1	Rabble	rabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rout	rout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Rabble rout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t13:o3:1
# text = Rabble rout
1	Rabble	rabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rout	rout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A rabble rout of hounds and cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t13:o4:1
# text = A rabble rout of hounds and cats
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rabble	rabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rout	rout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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