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title: Looking back: what did Taffy draw at the Cave mouth in her picture-l… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: what did Taffy draw at the Cave mouth in her picture-letter? Test 14 · ★ 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 14 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

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Looking back: what did Taffy draw at the Cave mouth in her picture-letter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Taffy · **What happens:** look back, draw, letter · **To what, where:** Cave mouth

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t14:1
# text = Looking back: what did Taffy draw at the Cave mouth in her picture-letter?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund | Taffy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **draw** | past · do-support | Taffy |  |  | the Cave mouth |  | in Taffy's picture letter | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme in letter=Destination |
| 3 | **letter** |  | Taffy |  |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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The sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t14:o1:1
# text = The sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Her Daddy with his hands down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t14:o2:1
# text = Her Daddy with his hands down
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	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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Her Mummy with her hands up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t14:o3:1
# text = Her Mummy with her hands up
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Mummy	mummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t14:o4:1
# text = A cave
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cave	cave	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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