Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

Yo, why'd the cat dress up as a doctor, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: dress up

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 dress	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dress	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 dress	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dress	nsubj
7	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 dress	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 doctor	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 doctor	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dress	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doctor	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dress	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress up	infinitive	the cat					as a doctor and bruv	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

To sneak up on the birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sneak	mark
2	sneak	sneak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sneak	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 birds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sneak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak up	to-infinitive						on the birds	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bird=Trajectory

Option 2

To hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hunt	mark
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	to-infinitive							vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To scare birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		birds					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To catch mice in the barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 barn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barn	det
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		mice		the barn			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

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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