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description: «A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he may be.» Why does this count as praise? Test 3 · ★ 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
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# Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

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«A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he may be.» Why does this count as praise?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** this · **What happens:** count

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he may be.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t3:1
# text = «A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he may be.»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Why does this count as praise?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t3:2
# text = Why does this count as praise?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  | as praise | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as praise=Attribute |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A blessing is a word in his praise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t3:o1:1
# text = A blessing is a word in his praise
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a blessing | a word |  | his praise |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **praise** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A blessing is a word of thanks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t3:o2:1
# text = A blessing is a word of thanks
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a blessing | a word |  |  |  | of thanks | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The Woman was happy about him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t3:o3:1
# text = The Woman was happy about him
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Woman |  |  |  |  | about him *= he*; happy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is a curse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby:t3:o4:1
# text = It is a curse
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a curse |  |  |  |  | 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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