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title: How did the cat's boots affect his movement on the tiles? — Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did the cat's boots affect his movement on the tiles? Exam question 4 of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

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How did the cat's boots affect his movement on the tiles?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boots, cat · **What happens:** be, affect, move · **To what, where:** movement, tiles

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1447-pg503-part34/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e4:1
# text = How did the cat's boots affect his movement on the tiles?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	affect	affect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **affect** | present | the cat's boots | cat's movement |  | the tiles |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus movement=Experiencer |
| 3 | **move** |  | cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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They made his steps very slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e4:o1:1
# text = They made his steps very slow
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | They | his steps |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product |
| 2 | **step** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They hindered his progress upon the slippery tiles of the castle roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e4:o2:1
# text = They hindered his progress upon the slippery tiles of the castle roof
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hinder** | past | They | his progress |  |  |  | upon the slippery tiles of the castle roof | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer progress=Eventuality |
| 2 | **progress** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They slowed his walk on tiles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e4:o3:1
# text = They slowed his walk on tiles
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slowed	slow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow** | past | They | his walk |  | tiles |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent walk=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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They hindered his progress upon the tiles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1447-pg503-part34:e4:o4:1
# text = They hindered his progress upon the tiles
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hinder** | past | They | his progress |  |  |  | upon the tiles | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer progress=Eventuality |
| 2 | **progress** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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