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title: so that cat's head comes off and wham, who turns up in the room — Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince… · tree and pragmatics
description: so that cat's head comes off and wham, who turns up in the room Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1453 «Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's head and the spell breaks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…

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so that cat's head comes off and wham, who turns up in the room

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** head, wham · **What happens:** come off, turn up · **To what, where:** room

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1453 «Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's head and the spell breaks» 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/1453-pg503-part40/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1453-pg503-part40:t2:1
# text = so that cat's head comes off and wham, who turns up in the room
1	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	wham	wham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come off** | present | that cat's head |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn up** | present | wham |  |  | the room |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |

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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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a lovely princess with a whole posse of knights and ladies, all in silk

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1453-pg503-part40:t2:o1:1
# text = a lovely princess with a whole posse of knights and ladies, all in silk
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	posse	posse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a lovely princess with a whole posse of knights and her mum and some dwarfs

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1453-pg503-part40:t2:o2:1
# text = a lovely princess with a whole posse of knights and her mum and some dwarfs
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	posse	posse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a lovely queen with her knights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1453-pg503-part40:t2:o3:1
# text = a lovely queen with her knights
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a lovely princess with a whole posse of knights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1453-pg503-part40:t2:o4:1
# text = a lovely princess with a whole posse of knights
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	posse	posse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

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