--- title: Mate, what was the venture thing he sent on the boat? — Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, what was the venture thing he sent on the boat? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1968 «Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wins his place at court across the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1968-pg7439-part27/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1968-pg7439-part27/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi… Mate, what was the venture thing he sent on the boat? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate, he · **What happens:** be, send · **To what, where:** venture thing, boat This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1968 «Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wins his place at court across the 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/1968-pg7439-part27/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t5:1 # text = Mate, what was the venture thing he sent on the boat? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 venture venture NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the venture thing | the venture thing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **send** | past | he | the venture thing *not said here* | | the boat | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | 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 {#o1} the old cat that lived in the garret ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t5:o1:1 # text = the old cat that lived in the garret 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 garret garret NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the old cat | | | the garret | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garret=Location | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} his cat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t5:o2:1 # text = his cat 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} his shoes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t5:o3:1 # text = his shoes 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a hen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t5:o4:1 # text = a hen 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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