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title: Did you see the rats in the cheese, mate? — More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Pip… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did you see the rats in the cheese, mate? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 235 «More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms the rats, then leads the children away for good» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 1 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms t…

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Did you see the rats in the cheese, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** rats, cheese

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 235 «More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms the rats, then leads the children away for good» 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/235-pg14241-part2/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:235-pg14241-part2:t1:1
# text = Did you see the rats in the cheese, mate?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · do-support | you | the rats |  | the cheese and mate |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Proper weird, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:235-pg14241-part2:t1:o1:1
# text = Proper weird, yeah
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, well gross, the whole cheese was rats mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:235-pg14241-part2:t1:o2:1
# text = Yeah, well gross, the whole cheese was rats mate
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	gross	gross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	compound	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | gross and the whole cheese | rats mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Proper gross, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:235-pg14241-part2:t1:o3:1
# text = Proper gross, innit
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Proper gross, innit, the rats were all in the cheese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:235-pg14241-part2:t1:o4:1
# text = Proper gross, innit, the rats were all in the cheese
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the rats |  |  | the gross cheese |  | all *property* | tree rules |

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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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