--- title: Looking back: what were the three sounds of the three magic signs? — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: what were the three sounds of the three magic signs? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 95 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/t11/) [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/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t… Looking back: what were the three sounds of the three magic signs? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** look back, be · **To what, where:** three sounds This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 95 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t11:1 # text = Looking back: what were the three sounds of the three magic signs? 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | past | | the three sounds | | | | of the three magic signs | tree rules | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Whoosh, puff, ffft ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t11:o1:1 # text = Whoosh, puff, ffft 1 Whoosh whoosh NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 puff puff NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ffft ffft NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Ahh, ohh, sshhh-sshhh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t11:o2:1 # text = Ahh, ohh, sshhh-sshhh 1 Ahh ahh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ohh ohh INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 sshhh sshhh INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 sshhh sshhh NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Humph, humph, humph ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t11:o3:1 # text = Humph, humph, humph 1 Humph humph VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 humph humph VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 humph humph VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **humph** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **humph** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **humph** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Bang, crash, thunder ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t11:o4:1 # text = Bang, crash, thunder 1 Bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` 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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