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title: Which title did the departing cat claim upon learning of the death o… — English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which title did the departing cat claim upon learning of the death of Tim Toldrum? Exam question 4 of lesson 258 «English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits the girl in the rushen coatie» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits…

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Which title did the departing cat claim upon learning of the death of Tim Toldrum?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** title, Tim · **What happens:** do, die · **To what, where:** departing cat claim

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 258 «English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits the girl in the rushen coatie» 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/258-pg14241-part25/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:e4:1
# text = Which title did the departing cat claim upon learning of the death of Tim Toldrum?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	departing	departing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Toldrum	Toldrum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which title | the departing cat claim |  |  |  | upon learning of the death of Tim | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality |
| 2 | **die** |  | Tim |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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Prince of Mice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:e4:o1:1
# text = Prince of Mice
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Mice	Mice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lord Cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:e4:o2:1
# text = Lord Cat
1	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the Cat King

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:e4:o3:1
# text = the Cat King
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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King o' the Cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:e4:o4:1
# text = King o' the Cats
1	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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