--- title: Real life: about when did cats start living near farmers in the Midd… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: about when did cats start living near farmers in the Middle East? Test 7 · ★★ 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 dependenc --- [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/t7/) [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/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t… Real life: about when did cats start living near farmers in the Middle East? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cats · **What happens:** start, live This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t7:1 # text = Real life: about when did cats start living near farmers in the Middle East? 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past · do-support | cats | | | | | about *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **live** | gerund | cats *not said here* | | | | | near farmers in the Middle East | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near farmer=Location | 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} About 10,000 years ago ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t7:o1:1 # text = About 10,000 years ago 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Last year ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t7:o2:1 # text = Last year 1 Last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 100 years ago ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t7:o3:1 # text = 100 years ago 1 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 ago ago ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A million years ago ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t7:o4:1 # text = A million years ago 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/t6/) - next →: [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/t8/) - ↑ back to [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/)