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title: ★★★ «O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy», says Wild Dog first. Whom doe… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ «O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy», says Wild Dog first. Whom does he mean by «my Enemy»? Test 18 · ★ 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 pragmatic
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# Test 18 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

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★★★ «O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy», says Wild Dog first. Whom does he mean by «my Enemy»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** say, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 18 · ★ 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/#t18).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ «O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy», says Wild Dog first.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t18:1
# text = ★★★ «O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy», says Wild Dog first.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	17	flat	_	_
17	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	15	nsubj	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Whom does he mean by «my Enemy»?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t18:2
# text = Whom does he mean by «my Enemy»?
1	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | ★ |  |  |  |  | by my Enemy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t18:o1:1
# text = Cat
1	Cat	cat	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The Man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t18:o2:1
# text = The Man
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t18:o3:1
# text = Dog
1	Dog	dog	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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The Horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t18:o4:1
# text = The Horse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Horse	horse	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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