--- title: ★★ The Rat's «a little wet» and a British dad's «slight problem in t… — Off with her head and the finest house… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★ The Rat's «a little wet» and a British dad's «slight problem in the kitchen». Which kind of talk do both use? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 54 «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t8/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Off with her head and the finest house…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice… ★★ The Rat's «a little wet» and a British dad's «slight problem in the kitchen». Which kind of talk do both use? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, both · **What happens:** ★, use · **To what, where:** Rat, kind This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 54 «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★ The Rat's «a little wet» and a British dad's «slight problem in the kitchen». ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad:t8:1 # text = ★★ The Rat's «a little wet» and a British dad's «slight problem in the kitchen». 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 slight slight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **★** | past | ★ | the Rat | | | | | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which kind of talk do both use? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad:t8:2 # text = Which kind of talk do both use? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 7 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present · do-support | both | which kind of talk | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Understatement ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad:t8:o1:1 # text = Understatement 1 Understatement understatement NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Sarcasm ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad:t8:o2:1 # text = Sarcasm 1 Sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A plain true fact ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad:t8:o3:1 # text = A plain true fact 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Hyperbole ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad:t8:o4:1 # text = Hyperbole 1 Hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 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: [Off with her head and the finest house…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t7/) - next →: [Off with her head and the finest house…, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/t9/) - ↑ back to [Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/)