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title: Looking back: who in the Taffy stories lived in a Cave and kept hous… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: who in the Taffy stories lived in a Cave and kept house too? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

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Looking back: who in the Taffy stories lived in a Cave and kept house too?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** look back, live, keep · **To what, where:** Cave

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» 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/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t13:1
# text = Looking back: who in the Taffy stories lived in a Cave and kept house too?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | a Cave and kept house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
| 3 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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Teshumai Tewindrow, Taffy's Mummy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t13:o1:1
# text = Teshumai Tewindrow, Taffy's Mummy
1	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Taffy's Daddy, Mister Tewindrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t13:o2:1
# text = Taffy's Daddy, Mister Tewindrow
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Mister	Mister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	Tewindrow	Tewindrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Taffy and her Mummy and all the cousins who lived in the Cave on the hill

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t13:o3:1
# text = Taffy and her Mummy and all the cousins who lived in the Cave on the hill
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Mummy	mummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | all cousins |  |  | the Cave |  | on the hill | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Taffy's sister Ellen Wilson

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t13:o4:1
# text = Taffy's sister Ellen Wilson
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Wilson	Wilson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
```

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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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