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title: What sentiment moved Miss Alice to succour the poor boy? — pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4… · tree and pragmatics
description: What sentiment moved Miss Alice to succour the poor boy? Exam question 4 of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Exam question 4 · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

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What sentiment moved Miss Alice to succour the poor boy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sentiment · **What happens:** move, succour · **To what, where:** Miss, poor boy

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» 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/1462-pg503-part49/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e4:1
# text = What sentiment moved Miss Alice to succour the poor boy?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	succour	succour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | what sentiment | Miss |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme miss=Result |
| 2 | **succour** | to-infinitive | what sentiment *not said here* | the poor boy |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Compassion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e4:o1:1
# text = Compassion
1	Compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A sudden wish to scold the cook for her cruelty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e4:o2:1
# text = A sudden wish to scold the cook for her cruelty
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	scold	scold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scold** | to-infinitive |  | the cook |  |  |  | for her cruelty | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cook=Theme for cruelty=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Curiosity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e4:o3:1
# text = Curiosity
1	Curiosity	curiosity	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 desire to be the hero of the household

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e4:o4:1
# text = A desire to be the hero of the household
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the hero |  |  |  | of the household | 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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