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title: Oi, what did the cat threaten the rats with, proper? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what did the cat threaten the rats with, proper? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it back» 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 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…

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Oi, what did the cat threaten the rats with, proper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** threaten · **To what, where:** rats

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it back» 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/1834-pg7128-part18/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1834-pg7128-part18:t9:1
# text = Oi, what did the cat threaten the rats with, proper?
1	Oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
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	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | past · do-support | the cat | the rats |  |  |  | with proper | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rat=Experiencer |

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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 {#o1}

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to tear his ears off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1834-pg7128-part18:t9:o1:1
# text = to tear his ears off
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	tear	tear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear off** | to-infinitive |  | his ears |  |  |  | off *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ear=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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to come back with all the cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1834-pg7128-part18:t9:o2:1
# text = to come back with all the cats
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with all cats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to kill the bridegroom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1834-pg7128-part18:t9:o3:1
# text = to kill the bridegroom
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | the bridegroom |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to eat the bridegroom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1834-pg7128-part18:t9:o4:1
# text = to eat the bridegroom
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | the bridegroom |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Patient |

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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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