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title: Did the White Cat actually make the Prince forget stuff? — Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the White Cat actually make the Prince forget stuff? Test 4 · ★ 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 and of
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# Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines…

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Did the White Cat actually make the Prince forget stuff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** do, make, forget · **To what, where:** White Cat, Prince, stuff

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t4:1
# text = Did the White Cat actually make the Prince forget stuff?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the White Cat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | the Prince |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | stuff |  |  |  |  | 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}

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Nah, just wine, fam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t4:o1:1
# text = Nah, just wine, fam
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, that crystal goblet was a proper magic drink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t4:o2:1
# text = Yeah, that crystal goblet was a proper magic drink
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that crystal goblet | a proper magic drink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a proper drink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah, a proper drink
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, that goblet was just a posh cup of water, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1451-pg503-part38:t4:o4:1
# text = Nah, that goblet was just a posh cup of water, bruv
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that goblet | a posh cup and bruv |  |  |  | of water | tree rules |

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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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