--- title: Which of the following did the queen call the cat when she touched h… — English Fairy Tales, Whittington and H… · tree and pragmatics description: Which of the following did the queen call the cat when she touched her? Exam question 1 of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1969-pg7439-part28/e1/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales, Whittington and H…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1969-pg7439-part28/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi… Which of the following did the queen call the cat when she touched her? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** follow, call, touch · **To what, where:** cat, her · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 1 of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1969-pg7439-part28/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:e1:1 # text = Which of the following did the queen call the cat when she touched her? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 obj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 case _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 8 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | present | | the cat | | | | of the queen | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme cat=Result | | 3 | **touch** | past | cat | her *= she* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-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} Puss ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:e1:o1:1 # text = Puss 1 Puss puss NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} "Putty, putty, come here my pretty cat" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:e1:o2:1 # text = "Putty, putty, come here my pretty cat" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Putty putty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 putty putty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Putty and putty | my pretty cat | | here | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} "Putty, putty" ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:e1:o3:1 # text = "Putty, putty" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Putty putty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 putty putty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Kitty ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1969-pg7439-part28:e1:o4:1 # text = Kitty 1 Kitty Kitty PROPN NNP 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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