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title: so the mice boss hats got them stuck how exactly? — Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Ju… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the mice boss hats got them stuck how exactly? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 368 «Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock's heavy train keeps him from flying» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 3 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock…

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so the mice boss hats got them stuck how exactly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mice, hats · **What happens:** boss, get · **To what, where:** mice

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 368 «Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock's heavy train keeps him from flying» 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/368-pg19994-part7/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t3:1
# text = so the mice boss hats got them stuck how exactly?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	boss	boss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boss** | present | the mice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | hats | mice *= mouse* |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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their big feather hats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t3:o1:1
# text = their big feather hats
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the weasel traps and holes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t3:o2:1
# text = the weasel traps and holes
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
their tall feathered caps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t3:o3:1
# text = their tall feathered caps
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	feathered	feathered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the hats were too tall to fit through the Weasel holes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:368-pg19994-part7:t3:o4:1
# text = the hats were too tall to fit through the Weasel holes
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Weasel	Weasel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hats |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive | the hats *not said here* |  |  | the Weasel holes |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory |

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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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