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# Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

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so when the country mouse bounced, what did he say, like, the exact vibe

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** country mouse · **What happens:** bounce, say · **To what, where:** country mouse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t6:1
# text = so when the country mouse bounced, what did he say, like, the exact vibe
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	bounced	bounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	vibe	vibe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce** | participle |  | the country mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the country mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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this place is too dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t6:o1:1
# text = this place is too dangerous
1	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this place |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
see ya then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t6:o2:1
# text = see ya then
1	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ya	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | ya |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
later, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t6:o3:1
# text = later, mate
1	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
you're surrounded by dangers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:145-pg11339-part15:t6:o4:1
# text = you're surrounded by dangers
1	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | present · passive | dangers | you |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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