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title: What set off the whole panic in the house? — Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What set off the whole panic in the house? Test 9 · ★ 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 and of 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

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What set off the whole panic in the house?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** set off · **To what, where:** whole panic, house

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t9:1
# text = What set off the whole panic in the house?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | past |  | the whole panic |  | the house |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition panic=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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A huge Cat suddenly mewing and scratching at the big front door of the house

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t9:o1:1
# text = A huge Cat suddenly mewing and scratching at the big front door of the house
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mewing	mew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mew** | gerund | a huge Cat |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scratch** | gerund | a huge Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the big front door of the house | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a Cat mewing and scratching the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t9:o2:1
# text = a Cat mewing and scratching the door
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	mewing	mew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mew** | gerund | a Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scratch** | gerund | a Cat *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A Cat scratching at the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t9:o3:1
# text = A Cat scratching at the wall
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** | gerund | a Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the wall | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wall=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A Cat mewing and scratching the door, very loudly, in the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:363-pg19994-part2:t9:o4:1
# text = A Cat mewing and scratching the door, very loudly, in the hall
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mewing	mew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mew** | gerund | a Cat |  |  | the hall |  | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scratch** | gerund | a Cat *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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