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title: the mouse was getting carried every night for a week, what was that… — Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: the mouse was getting carried every night for a week, what was that for? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1190 «Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tricks a hungry wolf, then outwits the whole wolf pack's revenge plan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tric…

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the mouse was getting carried every night for a week, what was that for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** mouse

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1190 «Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tricks a hungry wolf, then outwits the whole wolf pack's revenge plan» of the books 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/books/1190-pg3027-part56/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1190-pg3027-part56:t7:1
# text = the mouse was getting carried every night for a week, what was that for?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	getting	get	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · passive |  | the mouse |  |  | night; week |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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}

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A field of beans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1190-pg3027-part56:t7:o1:1
# text = A field of beans
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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A patch of maize

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1190-pg3027-part56:t7:o2:1
# text = A patch of maize
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Some corn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1190-pg3027-part56:t7:o3:1
# text = Some corn
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1190-pg3027-part56:t7:o4:1
# text = Food
1	Food	food	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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