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title: Lowkey, why'd Whittington hide the cat? — pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, why'd Whittington hide the cat? Test 5 · ★ 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; Mova's cho
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# Test 5 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

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Lowkey, why'd Whittington hide the cat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lowkey · **What happens:** hide · **To what, where:** Whittington

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t5:1
# text = Lowkey, why'd Whittington hide the cat?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Lowkey | Whittington |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient |

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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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Scared the cook would beat her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t5:o1:1
# text = Scared the cook would beat her
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | would | the Scared cook | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To feed her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t5:o2:1
# text = To feed her
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Feared the master would sell her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t5:o3:1
# text = Feared the master would sell her
1	Feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sell** | would | the master | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wanted to keep her warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:t5:o4:1
# text = Wanted to keep her warm
1	Wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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