--- title: Real talk, did the rats bite the king's hands or nah? — Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rat… · tree and pragmatics description: Real talk, did the rats bite the king's hands or nah? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» of the books course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/690-pg2435-part30/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/) / [Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/690-pg2435-part30/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin… Real talk, did the rats bite the king's hands or nah? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rats · **What happens:** bite · **To what, where:** hands This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» 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/690-pg2435-part30/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t9:1 # text = Real talk, did the rats bite the king's hands or nah? 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 nah nah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present | the rats | the king's hands | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | 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} Yeah, they bit his sleeve ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t9:o1:1 # text = Yeah, they bit his sleeve 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 sleeve sleeve NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | past | they | his sleeve | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeve=Patient | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yeah, they tried to bite ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t9:o2:1 # text = Yeah, they tried to bite 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | they | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **bite** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, they bit so hard the king bled all over the table ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t9:o3:1 # text = Yeah, they bit so hard the king bled all over the table 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 bled bleed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 all all ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | past | they | | | | | hard *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bleed** | past | the king | | | the table | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over table=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, they only sniffed him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t9:o4:1 # text = Nah, they only sniffed him 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sniffed sniff VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sniff** | past | they | him *= he* | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | **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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