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title: Which household animal entered the dining room after the servants ha… — Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which household animal entered the dining room after the servants had departed? Exam question 4 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 t
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# Exam question 4 · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

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Which household animal entered the dining room after the servants had departed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** household animal · **What happens:** enter, depart · **To what, where:** dining room, servants

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e4:1
# text = Which household animal entered the dining room after the servants had departed?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dining	dining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | which household animal | the dining room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **depart** | past · perfect · passive |  | the servants |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The House Dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e4:o1:1
# text = The House Dog
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e4:o2:1
# text = The Fox
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	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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The Farm Dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e4:o3:1
# text = The Farm Dog
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Dog	dog	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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A big Hound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:e4:o4:1
# text = A big Hound
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Hound	hound	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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