--- title: Where did Dick park his bum to have a think? — Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Where did Dick park his bum to have a think? Test 8 · ★ 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; Mova's cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1968-pg7439-part27/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi… Where did Dick park his bum to have a think? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dick · **What happens:** park, have · **To what, where:** bum, think This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t8:1 # text = Where did Dick park his bum to have a think? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 4 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 Dick Dick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 park park VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 bum bum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 think think NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **park** | past · do-support | Dick | Dick's bum | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bum=Theme | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Dick *not said here* | a think | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent think=Patient | 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} on a stone at Holloway ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t8:o1:1 # text = on a stone at Holloway 1 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Holloway Holloway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} at the top of the hill near the old church and mill ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t8:o2:1 # text = at the top of the hill near the old church and mill 1 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 near near ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} under a tree at Islington ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t8:o3:1 # text = under a tree at Islington 1 under under ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Islington Islington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} on the road ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t8:o4:1 # text = on the road 1 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 road road 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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