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title: "black cat crossed my path, my test is gonna go terrible" What do yo… — Sleepovers and spooky stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "black cat crossed my path, my test is gonna go terrible" What do you say? Test 7 of lesson 26 «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · Sleepovers and spooky stories

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"black cat crossed my path, my test is gonna go terrible" What do you say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** black cat, you, my · **What happens:** cross, be, say, test · **To what, where:** path · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 of lesson 26 «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths 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/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories:t7:1
# text = "black cat crossed my path, my test is gonna go terrible" What do you say?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	dep	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** *in a quote* | participle | black cat and my test *not said here* | my path |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | black cat and my test |  |  |  |  | go, terrible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 4 | **test** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom test «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

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You'd better skip the test now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories:t7:o1:1
# text = You'd better skip the test now
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	skip	skip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | would | You | the test |  |  | now | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It's a superstition; some places even say they're lucky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories:t7:o2:1
# text = It's a superstition; some places even say they're lucky
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	superstition	superstition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a superstition |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some places |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | places *= place* |  |  |  |  | lucky *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only a white cat can cancel it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories:t7:o3:1
# text = Only a white cat can cancel it
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cancel	cancel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cancel** | can | a white cat | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Walk backwards three times round the house to undo the bad luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories:t7:o4:1
# text = Walk backwards three times round the house to undo the bad luck
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the house | time | backwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory |
| 2 | **undo** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the bad luck |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient |

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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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