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title: Mate, what did Whittington's penny actually buy? — pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did Whittington's penny actually buy? Test 3 · ★ 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 option; M
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# Test 3 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

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Mate, what did Whittington's penny actually buy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** buy · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t3:1
# text = Mate, what did Whittington's penny actually buy?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past · do-support |  | Mate |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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A cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t3:o1:1
# text = A cat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	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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Tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t3:o2:1
# text = Tea
1	Tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Some ale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t3:o3:1
# text = Some ale
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	ale	ale	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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Ink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t3:o4:1
# text = Ink
1	Ink	ink	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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