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title: What did the Country Mouse grab on her way out? — Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Country Mouse grab on her way out? Test 12 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 12 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

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What did the Country Mouse grab on her way out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Country Mouse grab, way

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t12:1
# text = What did the Country Mouse grab on her way out?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	grab	grab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Country Mouse grab |  | her way |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grab=Eventuality |

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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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her carpet bag and umbrella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t12:o1:1
# text = her carpet bag and umbrella
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Every bit of her luggage, including the carpet bag and brolly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t12:o2:1
# text = Every bit of her luggage, including the carpet bag and brolly
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	luggage	luggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	including	including	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	brolly	brolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Her bag and her umbrella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t12:o3:1
# text = Her bag and her umbrella
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Her carpet bag, umbrella, and a bunch of the acorns she had brought

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t12:o4:1
# text = Her carpet bag, umbrella, and a bunch of the acorns she had brought
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · perfect | she | the acorns *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent acorn=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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