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title: Who was in charge of the cats, mental? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was in charge of the cats, mental? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1989 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft from the king's stable, then a tale of cats» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft fro…

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Who was in charge of the cats, mental?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** charge

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1989 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft from the king's stable, then a tale of cats» 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/1989-pg7885-part8/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1989-pg7885-part8:t10:1
# text = Who was in charge of the cats, mental?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | charge |  | of the cats | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A one-eared ginger cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1989-pg7885-part8:t10:o1:1
# text = A one-eared ginger cat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eared	eared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	ginger	ginger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The one-eyed fox-coloured cat of the herd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1989-pg7885-part8:t10:o2:1
# text = The one-eyed fox-coloured cat of the herd
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The black tabby bard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1989-pg7885-part8:t10:o3:1
# text = The black tabby bard
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	tabby	tabby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A one-eyed fox-coloured cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1989-pg7885-part8:t10:o4:1
# text = A one-eyed fox-coloured cat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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