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title: Mate, the White Cat's portrait thing, that's well sus, innit? — Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, the White Cat's portrait thing, that's well sus, innit? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1451 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines with the White Cat and goes home with a tiny dog» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 2 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines…

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Mate, the White Cat's portrait thing, that's well sus, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be, innit

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1451 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines with the White Cat and goes home with a tiny dog» 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/1451-pg503-part38/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t2:1
# text = Mate, the White Cat's portrait thing, that's well sus, innit?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mate and the White Cat's portrait thing |  |  |  |  | suspect, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, the bloke was an old king with a beard, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t2:o1:1
# text = Nah, the bloke was an old king with a beard, bruv
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the bloke | a old king and bruv |  |  |  | with a beard | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a bit sus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t2:o2:1
# text = Yeah, a bit sus
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the bloke looked just like the Prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t2:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the bloke looked just like the Prince
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the bloke |  |  |  |  | like the Prince | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just a cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t2:o4:1
# text = Nah, just a cat
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cat	cat	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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