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title: What was the dream the Country Mouse had, like? — Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the dream the Country Mouse had, like? Test 6 · ★ 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 an
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# Test 6 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

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What was the dream the Country Mouse had, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dream · **What happens:** be, have

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t6:1
# text = What was the dream the Country Mouse had, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the dream |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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Cheese, fam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t6:o1:1
# text = Cheese, fam
1	Cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She ate grand food, fam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t6:o2:1
# text = She ate grand food, fam
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | She | grand food and fam |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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

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she was a Town Mouse, fam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t6:o3:1
# text = she was a Town Mouse, fam
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Town	town	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | she | a Town Mouse and fam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A dog, fam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t6:o4:1
# text = A dog, fam
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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