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title: Ya, who did the factor think of when he saw the rats? — pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ya, who did the factor think of when he saw the rats? Test 14 · ★ 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 opt
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# Test 14 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

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Ya, who did the factor think of when he saw the rats?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ya, factor · **What happens:** do, think, see · **To what, where:** rats

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t14:1
# text = Ya, who did the factor think of when he saw the rats?
1	Ya	Ya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	factor	factor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ya |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | the factor |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | factor | the rats |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Poor Whittington and his cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t14:o1:1
# text = Poor Whittington and his cat
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t14:o2:1
# text = The cook
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The King

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t14:o3:1
# text = The King
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	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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Whittington's poor master

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t14:o4:1
# text = Whittington's poor master
1	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	master	master	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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