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title: bro, how many mice fit in that tiny hole? — Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, how many mice fit in that tiny hole? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 400 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits his grand city friend, gets a scare, and goes home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bro, how many mice fit in that tiny hole?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many mice · **What happens:** fit · **To what, where:** tiny hole

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 400 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits his grand city friend, gets a scare, and goes home» 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/400-pg21-part21/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:400-pg21-part21:t5:1
# text = bro, how many mice fit in that tiny hole?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | many mice |  |  | that tiny hole |  | bro *vocative* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in hole=Trajectory |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two, but they gotta squeeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:400-pg21-part21:t5:o1:1
# text = two, but they gotta squeeze
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	gotta	gotta	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** |  | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two, but they gotta squeeze real hard to get in there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:400-pg21-part21:t5:o2:1
# text = two, but they gotta squeeze real hard to get in there
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	gotta	gotta	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** |  | two |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get in** | to-infinitive | two *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two, they squeeze in tight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:400-pg21-part21:t5:o3:1
# text = two, they squeeze in tight
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | present | two |  |  | tight |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two, but they gotta squeeze, cause that hole is super tiny and narrow lol

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:400-pg21-part21:t5:o4:1
# text = two, but they gotta squeeze, cause that hole is super tiny and narrow lol
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	gotta	gotta	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	super	super	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** |  | two |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | that hole |  |  |  |  | super, tiny *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | that hole *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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