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title: Where did the husband and wife conceal themselves upon the mouse's e… — Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the husband and wife conceal themselves upon the mouse's escape? Exam question 3 of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Exam question 3 · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

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Where did the husband and wife conceal themselves upon the mouse's escape?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** husband, mouse · **What happens:** be, conceal, escape · **To what, where:** husband, escape

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1286-pg3454-part11/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e3:1
# text = Where did the husband and wife conceal themselves upon the mouse's escape?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	conceal	conceal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **conceal** | present | the husband and wife | husband |  | the mouse's escape |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient upon escape=Location |
| 3 | **escape** |  | the mouse |  |  |  |  |  | nom escape «act intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Beneath the long dining table in the great hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e3:o1:1
# text = Beneath the long dining table in the great hall
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	dining	dining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Beneath the dining table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e3:o2:1
# text = Beneath the dining table
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dining	dining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Behind the kitchen door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e3:o3:1
# text = Behind the kitchen door
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	door	door	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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Behind it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:e3:o4:1
# text = Behind it
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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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