Test 11 · ★ · Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock a…

Bro, how did they feel about getting up early?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: feel, get up

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 135 «Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock and wake up even earlier» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feel	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feel	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	conj
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 getting	mark
8	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 feel	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 getting	compound:prt
10	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 getting	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	they						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	get up	gerund	they not said here					early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They hated it, especially in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 winter	punct
5	especially	especially	ADV	_	7 winter	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	They	it			winter		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

They did not mind it much but hated the winter cold most of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mind	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mind	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 mind	advmod
4	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mind	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 mind	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 hated	cc
8	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mind	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winter	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hated	obj
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hated	xcomp
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 mind	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mind	past · do-support	They	it					tree rules
2	hate	past	They not said here				winter	cold property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They hated it because the mornings were cold and the cock woke them too early

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 cold	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mornings	det
6	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cold	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cold	cop
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hated	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 woke	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cock	det
11	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 woke	nsubj
12	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hated	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 woke	obj
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 early	advmod
15	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 woke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hate	past	They	it		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	past	the mornings		cold property	tree rules
3	wake	past	the cock	them = they	early property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

They found it quite nice at first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 nice	advmod
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 nice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	They	it				nice property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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