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title: ★★★ Careful: the Cat makes bargains with how many people or animals… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Careful: the Cat makes bargains with how many people or animals in the whole story? Test 18 · ★★ 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 t
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# Test 18 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

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★★★ Careful: the Cat makes bargains with how many people or animals in the whole story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** bargains

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This is test 18 · ★★ 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/#t18).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t18:1
# text = ★★★ Careful: the Cat makes bargains with how many people or animals in the whole story?
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	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	bargains	bargain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | ★ ★ Careful | bargains |  |  |  | with many people in the whole story or animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Two: the Man and the Dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t18:o1:1
# text = Two: the Man and the Dog
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One: the Woman, because the Man and the Dog only made threats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t18:o2:1
# text = One: the Woman, because the Man and the Dog only made threats
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the One Woman | threats |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threat=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Four, with the Bat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t18:o3:1
# text = Four, with the Bat
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t18:o4:1
# text = Three
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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