--- title: Dead, what message did the squeaky cat give the sexton? — English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: th… · tree and pragmatics description: Dead, what message did the squeaky cat give the sexton? Test 8 · ★ 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 question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/258-pg14241-part25/t8/) [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, Rushen Coatie: th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/258-pg14241-part25/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits… Dead, what message did the squeaky cat give the sexton? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** squeaky cat · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** sexton This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:t8:1 # text = Dead, what message did the squeaky cat give the sexton? 1 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 4 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 squeaky squeaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sexton sexton NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past · do-support | the squeaky cat | the sexton | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sexton=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 {#o1} Tom Tildrum is ill ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:t8:o1:1 # text = Tom Tildrum is ill 1 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Tildrum Tildrum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Tom | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} He's dead ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:t8:o2:1 # text = He's dead 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | He | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Tim's gone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:t8:o3:1 # text = Tim's gone 1 Tim Tim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Tim | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Tim Toldrum's dead ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:258-pg14241-part25:t8:o4:1 # text = Tim Toldrum's dead 1 Tim Tim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Toldrum Toldrum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 4 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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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