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title: "omg the cat left a present in my slipper" — what did the cat probab… — Soft words for hard things: animals an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "omg the cat left a present in my slipper" — what did the cat probably leave? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and…

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"omg the cat left a present in my slipper" — what did the cat probably leave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** leave, do · **To what, where:** present, slipper, cat

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 18 «Soft words for hard things: animals and pets and money and poverty» of the euphemisms 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/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t1:1
# text = "omg the cat left a present in my slipper" — what did the cat probably leave?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	omg	omg	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | the cat | a present |  | my slipper |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent present=Theme in slipper=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the cat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Some cat food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t1:o1:1
# text = Some cat food
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A toy mouse it found under the bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t1:o2:1
# text = A toy mouse it found under the bed
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | a toy mouse |  |  | the bed |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Droppings or a dead mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t1:o3:1
# text = Droppings or a dead mouse
1	Droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A ribbon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:18-pets-and-money:t1:o4:1
# text = A ribbon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ribbon	ribbon	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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**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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