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title: was the mouse well suspicious or dead chuffed about them names? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the mouse well suspicious or dead chuffed about them names? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 736 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat steals the winter fat, then eats the mouse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat…

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was the mouse well suspicious or dead chuffed about them names?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mouse · **What happens:** be, chuff · **To what, where:** names

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 736 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat steals the winter fat, then eats the mouse» 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/736-pg2591-part12/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t5:1
# text = was the mouse well suspicious or dead chuffed about them names?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	chuffed	chuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the mouse |  |  |  |  | suspicious, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chuff** | participle | the mouse *not said here* | names |  |  |  | about them *= they* | tree rules |

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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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well suspicious

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t5:o1:1
# text = well suspicious
1	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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very happy and pleased

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t5:o2:1
# text = very happy and pleased
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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dead chuffed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t5:o3:1
# text = dead chuffed
1	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	chuffed	chuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuff** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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well suspicious of the strange names the cat gave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:736-pg2591-part12:t5:o4:1
# text = well suspicious of the strange names the cat gave
1	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | suspicious |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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