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title: test: what did Rudy do with the cat before it ran off? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: what did Rudy do with the cat before it ran off? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

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test: what did Rudy do with the cat before it ran off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Rudy, cat · **What happens:** do, run off · **To what, where:** test

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» 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/853-pg27200-part64/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t14:1
# text = test: what did Rudy do with the cat before it ran off?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | Rudy | test |  |  |  | with the cat | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run off** | past | cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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he fed it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t14:o1:1
# text = he fed it
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he gave it some milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t14:o2:1
# text = he gave it some milk
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient milk=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he petted it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t14:o3:1
# text = he petted it
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	petted	pet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pet** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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he took it in his arms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t14:o4:1
# text = he took it in his arms
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | he | it |  | his arms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in arm=Location |

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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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