--- title: Chill, what did the Queen cry when she stroked puss? — pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4… · tree and pragmatics description: Chill, what did the Queen cry when she stroked puss? Test 12 · ★ 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 each opti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1462-pg503-part49/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1462-pg503-part49/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t… Chill, what did the Queen cry when she stroked puss? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Queen · **What happens:** chill, cry, stroke · **To what, where:** puss This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t12:1 # text = Chill, what did the Queen cry when she stroked puss? 1 Chill chill VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stroked stroke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 puss puss NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chill** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · do-support | the Queen | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **stroke** | past | Queen | puss | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puss=Experiencer | 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} Soft, soft! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t12:o1:1 # text = Soft, soft! 1 Soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} What a lovely creature, what a sweet little friend! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t12:o2:1 # text = What a lovely creature, what a sweet little friend! 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 4 det:predet _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 10 det:predet _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Puss, puss, dear ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t12:o3:1 # text = Puss, puss, dear 1 Puss puss NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 puss puss NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Putty, putty! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t12:o4:1 # text = Putty, putty! 1 Putty putty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 putty putty NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: [pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4…, test 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1462-pg503-part49/t11/) - next →: [pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4…, test 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1462-pg503-part49/t13/) - ↑ back to [pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1462-pg503-part49/)