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title: No cap, what did the mice carry as a staff? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, what did the mice carry as a staff? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

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No cap, what did the mice carry as a staff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap, mice · **What happens:** do, carry

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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/989-pg27200-part200/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t3:1
# text = No cap, what did the mice carry as a staff?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no cap |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | present | the mice |  |  |  |  | as a staff | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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a hollow reed stuffed with fat and sausage skin bits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t3:o1:1
# text = a hollow reed stuffed with fat and sausage skin bits
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stuff** | participle |  | a hollow reed *not said here* |  |  |  | with fat and skin bits | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fat=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a hazel cane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t3:o2:1
# text = a hazel cane
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a long sausage skewer with red thread tied at one end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t3:o3:1
# text = a long sausage skewer with red thread tied at one end
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	skewer	skewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | participle |  | a long sausage skewer with red thread *not said here* |  |  | at one end |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sausage skewer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t3:o4:1
# text = a sausage skewer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	skewer	skewer	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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