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title: Which day did he leg it outta there? — Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which day did he leg it outta there? Test 9 · ★ 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 choice was 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

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Which day did he leg it outta there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** day, he · **What happens:** do, leg

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t9:1
# text = Which day did he leg it outta there?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
7	outta	outta	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which day |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leg** |  | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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the first morning after the long winter frost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t9:o1:1
# text = the first morning after the long winter frost
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Midsummer Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t9:o2:1
# text = Midsummer Day
1	Midsummer	Midsummer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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All-hallows Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t9:o3:1
# text = All-hallows Day
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	hallows	hallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the Feast of St. Michael in the autumn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1968-pg7439-part27:t9:o4:1
# text = the Feast of St. Michael in the autumn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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