--- title: Ascertain the informant who conveyed to the Cat news of the Baby's b… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the informant who conveyed to the Cat news of the Baby's birth. Exam question 2 of lesson 94 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t… Ascertain the informant who conveyed to the Cat news of the Baby's birth. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, informant · **What happens:** ascertain, convey · **To what, where:** informant, Cat news This is exam question 2 of lesson 94 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the informant who conveyed to the Cat news of the Baby's birth. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 informant informant NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 conveyed convey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Baby Baby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the informant | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent informant=Topic | | 2 | **convey** | past | the informant | | the Cat news of the Baby's birth | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to news=Recipient | 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 {#o1} The Woman who spins in the Cave ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:e2:o1:1 # text = The Woman who spins in the Cave 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | the Woman | | | the Cave | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in cave=Trajectory | ### Option 2 {#o2} The Horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:e2:o2:1 # text = The Horse 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The Bat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:e2:o3:1 # text = The Bat 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Dog ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:e2:o4:1 # text = Dog 1 Dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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