--- title: bro, what were the mice doing before the eyes came? — Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo… · tree and pragmatics description: bro, what were the mice doing before the eyes came? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1272-pg338-part9/t12/) [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/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1272-pg338-part9/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u… bro, what were the mice doing before the eyes came? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro, mice · **What happens:** be, do, come · **To what, where:** mice This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» 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/1272-pg338-part9/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t12:1 # text = bro, what were the mice doing before the eyes came? 1 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 before before ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | bro | the mice | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | gerund | the mice *not said here* | | | | before the eyes | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | bro | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} sleeping ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t12:o1:1 # text = sleeping 1 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} dancing in a ring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t12:o2:1 # text = dancing in a ring 1 dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | gerund | | | | a ring | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} eating ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t12:o3:1 # text = eating 1 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} singing in a circle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t12:o4:1 # text = singing in a circle 1 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | a circle | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location | **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. 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