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title: Which creature did the Cat feign in order to deceive the Mice? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature did the Cat feign in order to deceive the Mice? Exam question 1 of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

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Which creature did the Cat feign in order to deceive the Mice?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** feign, deceive · **To what, where:** order, Mice

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/394-pg21-part15/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e1:1
# text = Which creature did the Cat feign in order to deceive the Mice?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feign	feign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feign** | past · do-support | which creature |  |  | order |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | which creature *not said here* | the Mice |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a dead creature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e1:o1:1
# text = a dead creature
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a dead animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e1:o2:1
# text = a dead animal
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a corpse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e1:o3:1
# text = a corpse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a ghost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:e1:o4:1
# text = a ghost
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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