--- title: so how did the cat finish off the mouse? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in… · tree and pragmatics description: so how did the cat finish off the mouse? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 736 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat steals the winter fat, then eats the mouse» 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/736-pg2591-part12/t13/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/736-pg2591-part12/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat… so how did the cat finish off the mouse? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** finish off · **To what, where:** mouse This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 736 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat steals the winter fat, then eats the mouse» 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/736-pg2591-part12/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t13:1 # text = so how did the cat finish off the mouse? 1 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish off** | past · do-support | the cat | the mouse | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector mouse=Eventuality | 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} she carried her off to the church and swallowed her whole at the altar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t13:o1:1 # text = she carried her off to the church and swallowed her whole at the altar 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 altar altar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry off** | past | she | her *= she* | | the church | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to church=Destination | | 2 | **swallow** | past | she *not said here* | her whole | | the altar | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} she swallowed her whole in one single gulp under the stove ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t13:o2:1 # text = she swallowed her whole in one single gulp under the stove 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 gulp gulp NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | past | she | her whole | | one single gulp | | under the stove | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} she licked her clean ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t13:o3:1 # text = she licked her clean 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 licked lick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lick** | past | she | | | | | clean *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} she swallowed her whole ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t13:o4:1 # text = she swallowed her whole 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | past | she | her whole | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient | **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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