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title: ★★★ Careful: the Bat calls the Woman «my Hostess and Wife of my Host… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Careful: the Bat calls the Woman «my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host's Son». Who is the Host's Son? Test 17 · ★ 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 depen
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# Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

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★★★ Careful: the Bat calls the Woman «my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host's Son». Who is the Host's Son?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** Woman, Son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 17 · ★ 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/#t17).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Careful: the Bat calls the Woman «my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host's Son».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t17:1
# text = ★★★ Careful: the Bat calls the Woman «my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host's Son».
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Bat	Bat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Hostess	hostess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	Host	Host	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | ★ ★ Careful |  | the Woman |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient |

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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:* Who is the Host's Son?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t17:2
# text = Who is the Host's Son?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Host	Host	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Host's Son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t17:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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The Dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t17:o2:1
# text = The Dog
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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The Baby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t17:o3:1
# text = The Baby
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	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 Bat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t17:o4:1
# text = The Bat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bat	bat	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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