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title: Mate, the mouse went round to the cat's, right? — English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, the mouse went round to the cat's, right? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells the truth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…

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Mate, the mouse went round to the cat's, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mouse · **What happens:** go round

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells the truth» 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/1949-pg7439-part8/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t7:1
# text = Mate, the mouse went round to the cat's, right?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go round** | past | the mouse |  |  |  |  | to the cat; Mate *vocative*; round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cat=Initial\_Location |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, and the cat was spinning old breeches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t7:o1:1
# text = Yeah, and the cat was spinning old breeches
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | past · progressive | the cat | old breeches |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breech=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, and the cat was knitting socks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t7:o2:1
# text = Yeah, and the cat was knitting socks
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	knitting	knit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knit** | past · progressive | the cat | socks |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, and the cat was spinning old breeches for the mouse's dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t7:o3:1
# text = Yeah, and the cat was spinning old breeches for the mouse's dinner
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | past · progressive | the cat | old breeches |  |  |  | for the mouse's dinner | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent breech=Result for dinner=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Yeah, and the cat was spinning old breeches while the mouse sat in the kitchen all afternoon

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t7:o4:1
# text = Yeah, and the cat was spinning old breeches while the mouse sat in the kitchen all afternoon
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	breeches	breech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | past · progressive | the cat | old breeches |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breech=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the mouse |  |  | the kitchen | afternoon |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location |

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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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