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description: Looking back: in part 1, what did the Cat say each time after the Dog and Horse made bargains? Test 12 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

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Looking back: in part 1, what did the Cat say each time after the Dog and Horse made bargains?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cat, Looking · **What happens:** look back, say, make · **To what, where:** part, bargains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t12:1
# text = Looking back: in part 1, what did the Cat say each time after the Dog and Horse made bargains?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	bargains	bargain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in part | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the Cat | part |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | past | Looking | bargains |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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That each was very foolish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t12:o1:1
# text = That each was very foolish
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	appos	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | foolish *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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That each was very foolish and that the Woman would never keep her word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t12:o2:1
# text = That each was very foolish and that the Woman would never keep her word
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	appos	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **keep** | would | the Woman | Woman's word |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  | Woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That they were both lazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t12:o3:1
# text = That they were both lazy
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | both, lazy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That each was very clever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t12:o4:1
# text = That each was very clever
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	appos	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |

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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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