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title: «mouse fell in the tall bucket, it's stuck lol» Is it? — How real mice survive: squeezing, clim… · tree and pragmatics
description: «mouse fell in the tall bucket, it's stuck lol» Is it? Test 11 of lesson 120 «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding

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«mouse fell in the tall bucket, it's stuck lol» Is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mouse · **What happens:** fall, be · **To what, where:** tall bucket, stuck lol, lol

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This is test 11 of lesson 120 «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» of the biology 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/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t11:1
# text = «mouse fell in the tall bucket, it's stuck lol» Is it?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lol	lol	NOUN	NN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
14	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | mouse |  |  | the tall bucket |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bucket=Location |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | mouse | stuck lol |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | lol |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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No, mice can fly out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t11:o1:1
# text = No, mice can fly out
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly out** | can | mice |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Maybe not, a mouse can jump about 30 centimetres straight up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t11:o2:1
# text = Maybe not, a mouse can jump about 30 centimetres straight up
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **jump about** | can | a mouse | 30 centimetres |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme centimetre=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, mice can never jump at all, not even a few centimetres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t11:o3:1
# text = Yes, mice can never jump at all, not even a few centimetres
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **jump** | can | mice | a few centimetres |  | all |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, mice are too heavy to climb, so it will stay there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t11:o4:1
# text = Yes, mice are too heavy to climb, so it will stay there
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | mice |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | to-infinitive | mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | future | it |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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