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title: Be real, why did women bail on the cat house so fast? — Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be real, why did women bail on the cat house so fast? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 6 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

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Be real, why did women bail on the cat house so fast?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, women · **What happens:** be, bail · **To what, where:** cat house

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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/719-pg2435-part59/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t6:1
# text = Be real, why did women bail on the cat house so fast?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bail	bail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bail** | past · do-support | women |  |  | the cat house |  | fast *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The cats were super picky and it was lonely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t6:o1:1
# text = The cats were super picky and it was lonely
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	super	super	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	picky	picky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the cats |  |  |  |  | picky, super *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The cats were super picky, scratched everyone, and the cellar was always damp and cold

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t6:o2:1
# text = The cats were super picky, scratched everyone, and the cellar was always damp and cold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	super	super	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	picky	picky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the cats |  |  |  |  | picky, super *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scratch** | participle | the cats *not said here* | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the cellar |  |  |  |  | always, damp *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the cats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nobody could stand the cats, the mice in the walls, the cold, and the howling at night

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t6:o3:1
# text = Nobody could stand the cats, the mice in the walls, the cold, and the howling at night
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | could | Nobody | the cats and the mice |  | the walls |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cat=Theme in wall=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The cats were rude to them all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t6:o4:1
# text = The cats were rude to them all
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the cats |  | them *= they* |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

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