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title: Which animal caused the Mice to hide in terror at the mansion? — Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which animal caused the Mice to hide in terror at the mansion? Exam question 1 of lesson 363 «Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits her city cousin and flees a cat and dog» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 1 · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

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Which animal caused the Mice to hide in terror at the mansion?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** cause, hide · **To what, where:** Mice, terror

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 363 «Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits her city cousin and flees a cat and dog» 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/363-pg19994-part2/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e1:1
# text = Which animal caused the Mice to hide in terror at the mansion?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | which animal | the Mice |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mouse=Patient |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | which animal *not said here* |  |  | terror |  | at the mansion | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in terror=Location |

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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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A hungry Cat from the stables outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e1:o1:1
# text = A hungry Cat from the stables outside
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e1:o2:1
# text = Owl
1	Owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a Cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e1:o3:1
# text = a Cat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	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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Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e1:o4:1
# text = Fox
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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