--- title: Was that mouse well sly, dancing about for scraps? — Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Was that mouse well sly, dancing about for scraps? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1538-pg540-part35/t4/) [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/) / [Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1538-pg540-part35/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides… Was that mouse well sly, dancing about for scraps? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** dance This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» 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/1538-pg540-part35/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:t4:1 # text = Was that mouse well sly, dancing about for scraps? 1 Was was ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 5 sly sly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 scraps scrap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | gerund | | | | | | was that mouse; for scraps; about, sly, well *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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 {#o1} Yeah, it danced for a crumb ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:t4:o1:1 # text = Yeah, it danced for a crumb 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 crumb crumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | past | it | | | | | for a crumb | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Yeah, it hopped for the bread ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:t4:o2:1 # text = Yeah, it hopped for the bread 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hopped hop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hop** | past | it | | | | | for the bread | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, proper sly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:t4:o3:1 # text = Yeah, proper sly 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 proper properly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 sly sly ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Yeah, it danced for the Queen's last pea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1538-pg540-part35:t4:o4:1 # text = Yeah, it danced for the Queen's last pea 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | past | it | | | | | for the Queen's last pea | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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