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title: cool, so the crape peg was like, a mourning thing? — Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 20… · tree and pragmatics
description: cool, so the crape peg was like, a mourning thing? Test 10 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 10 · ★ · Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cool, so the crape peg was like, a mourning thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crape peg · **What happens:** thing

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t10:1
# text = cool, so the crape peg was like, a mourning thing?
1	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	crape	crape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	peg	peg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thing** |  | the crape peg |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, a blue ribbon for the fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t10:o1:1
# text = nah, a blue ribbon for the fair
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, a funeral thing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t10:o2:1
# text = yeah, a funeral thing
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	thing	thing	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 -->
yeah, black cloth on it, for the mourners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t10:o3:1
# text = yeah, black cloth on it, for the mourners
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mourners	mourner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, black cloth on it, like for a funeral

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t10:o4:1
# text = yeah, black cloth on it, like for a funeral
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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