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title: on the second trip, how much did the cat scoff? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in… · tree and pragmatics
description: on the second trip, how much did the cat scoff? Test 6 · ★ 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; M
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# Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat…

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on the second trip, how much did the cat scoff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** much, second trip

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t6:1
# text = on the second trip, how much did the cat scoff?
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	scoff	scoff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | much |  | the second trip |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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a quarter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t6:o1:1
# text = a quarter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t6:o2:1
# text = a spoon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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half the pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t6:o3:1
# text = half the pot
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t6:o4:1
# text = a bit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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