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# Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ngl the hiding hole was well mad, how uncomfy was it

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, hiding hole · **What happens:** ngl, be · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 145 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a town visit ends in fright» 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/145-pg11339-part15/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t5:1
# text = ngl the hiding hole was well mad, how uncomfy was it
1	ngl	ngl	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	uncomfy	uncomfy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ngl** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the hiding hole |  |  |  |  | mad, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the hiding hole *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | it |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t5:o1:1
# text = narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable
1	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable, like sleeping in a boot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t5:o2:1
# text = narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable, like sleeping in a boot
1	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  | a boot |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in boot=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
squashed and pretty grim to be honest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t5:o3:1
# text = squashed and pretty grim to be honest
1	squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
so narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable that they could barely breathe at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t5:o4:1
# text = so narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable that they could barely breathe at all
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | could | they |  |  | all |  | barely *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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