--- title: Where'd the lad head after getting the cat, mate? — German Popular Stories, The Cottager A… · tree and pragmatics description: Where'd the lad head after getting the cat, mate? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/689-pg2435-part29/t9/) [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/) / [German Popular Stories, The Cottager A…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/689-pg2435-part29/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:… Where'd the lad head after getting the cat, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lad head · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** cat This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» 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/689-pg2435-part29/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t9:1 # text = Where'd the lad head after getting the cat, mate? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | would | the lad head | the cat | | | | mate *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | 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} straight to the royal palace to see the king himself ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t9:o1:1 # text = straight to the royal palace to see the king himself 1 straight straight ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | to-infinitive | | the king king | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} to town ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t9:o2:1 # text = to town 1 to to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} to the royal palace ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t9:o3:1 # text = to the royal palace 1 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} to the old mill ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:t9:o4:1 # text = to the old mill 1 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 mill mill NOUN NN 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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