---
title: Did the baby change into a mouse, or a fox? — Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the baby change into a mouse, or a fox? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/708-pg2435-part48/t7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/708-pg2435-part48/) / t7

# Test 7 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Did the baby change into a mouse, or a fox?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** baby change

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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/708-pg2435-part48/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t7:1
# text = Did the baby change into a mouse, or a fox?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the baby change |  |  |  | into a mouse or a fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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 -->
a mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t7:o1:1
# text = a mouse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t7:o2:1
# text = a rat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t7:o3:1
# text = a rabbit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t7:o4:1
# text = a fox
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the c…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/708-pg2435-part48/t6/)
- next →: [Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the c…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/708-pg2435-part48/t8/)
- ↑ back to [Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/708-pg2435-part48/)