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title: Did the Town Mouse wolf her food down, or nibble it? — Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the Town Mouse wolf her food down, or nibble it? Test 3 · ★ 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 questi
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# Test 3 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

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Did the Town Mouse wolf her food down, or nibble it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** nibble · **To what, where:** food

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t3:1
# text = Did the Town Mouse wolf her food down, or nibble it?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	nibble	nibble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nibble** | past · do-support |  | food |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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Nibbled it, very fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t3:o1:1
# text = Nibbled it, very fast
1	Nibbled	nibble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nibble** | past |  | it |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wolfed it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t3:o2:1
# text = Wolfed it
1	Wolfed	wolf	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wolf** | past |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gobbled it, quite rudely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t3:o3:1
# text = Gobbled it, quite rudely
1	Gobbled	gobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gobble** | past |  | it |  |  |  | rudely *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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nibbled it, dead polite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t3:o4:1
# text = nibbled it, dead polite
1	nibbled	nibble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nibble** | past |  | it |  |  |  | polite *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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