--- title: Which material was the sausage peg covered with at the moment of the… — Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 20… · tree and pragmatics description: Which material was the sausage peg covered with at the moment of the fourth mouse's arrival? Exam question 3 of lesson 991 «Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse bursts in and tells of her jail escape» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/991-pg27200-part202/e3/) [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/) / [Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 20…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/991-pg27200-part202/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse… Which material was the sausage peg covered with at the moment of the fourth mouse's arrival? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** material, fourth mouse · **What happens:** be, cover, arrive · **To what, where:** sausage peg This is exam question 3 of lesson 991 «Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse bursts in and tells of her jail escape» 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/991-pg27200-part202/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:e3:1 # text = Which material was the sausage peg covered with at the moment of the fourth mouse's arrival? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sausage sausage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 peg peg NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | which material | the sausage peg | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | the sausage peg *not said here* | | | moment | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **arrive** | | the fourth mouse | | | | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} Muslin. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:e3:o1:1 # text = Muslin. 1 Muslin Muslin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Velvet. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:e3:o2:1 # text = Velvet. 1 Velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Crape. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:e3:o3:1 # text = Crape. 1 Crape crape VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crape** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Silk. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:e3:o4:1 # text = Silk. 1 Silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: [Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 20…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/991-pg27200-part202/e2/) - next →: [Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 20…, exam 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/991-pg27200-part202/e4/) - ↑ back to [Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse bursts in and tells of her jail escape](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/991-pg27200-part202/)