Senex solet fila (strings) caedere. - Answers The old is accustomed to cutting strings.
Si senex filum (string) cecīdit, aliquis periit et non iam est vivus. - Answers If the old man has cut a string,
someone has died and is no longer alive.
Cum senex filum (string) cecīdit, tum pictura signum habet. - Answers When the old man has cut a
string, then a picture has a mark.
Si haec pictura signum habet, hic homo periit et non iam est vivus. - Answers If this picture has a mark,
this person has died and is no longer alive.
Feles periit et non iam est viva! - Answers The cat has died and is no longer alive!
Puella adest. - Answers The girl is here.
Puella picturam felis tenet. - Answers The girl is holding a picture of the cat.
Puella felem suam quaerit. - Answers The girl is looking for her (own) cat.
Puella nescit ubi feles sua sit (is). - Answers The girl does not know where her (own) cat is.
Senex autem scit felem puellae periisse. - Answers The old man, however, knows that the girl's cat has
died.
Senex conatur caedere fila (strings), sed fila fugiunt. - Answers The old man tries to cut the strings, but
the strings escape.
Dum senex fila (strings) sequitur, puella videt illam chartulam (card) quae picturam felis et signum
habet. - Answers While the old man follows the strings, the girl sees that card which has the picture of
the cat and a mark.
Eheu - puella tristis scit felem suam mortuam esse. - Answers Oh no - the sad girl knows that her (own)
cat is dead.
Subito - senex cadit. - Answers Suddenly - the old man falls down.
Deinde, senex surgit et vult caedere filum (string) puellae! - Answers Then, the old man stands up and
wants to cut the girl's string!
Si feles puellae iterum erit viva, puella non caedet (will not cut) filum (string) quod (which) picturam
senis habet. - Answers If the girl's cat will be alive again, the girl will not cut the string which has the old
man's picture.
Puella iubet ut senex felem reddat. - Answers The girl orders that the old man give back the cat.
Tum senex felem reddit. - Answers Then the old man gives back the cat.