Test 2 · ★ · Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock a…

Bruv, why did they actually whack the cock?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: do, whack · To what, where: cock

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 whack	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 whack	advmod
7	whack	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cock	det
9	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whack	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	whack	present	they	the cock				actually property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient

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 reckoned they could lie in longer

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lie	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	aux
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 lie	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 lie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	They						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lie in	could	they					long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They reckoned the cock was too loud and kept them up every single morning

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 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cock	det
4	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loud	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loud	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckoned	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckoned	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 kept	compound:prt
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 morning	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 morning	amod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	They				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the cock			loud property	tree rules
3	keep up	past	They not said here	them = they	morning		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

They fancied a cheap meal of chicken

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 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meal	det
4	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meal	amod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 chicken	case
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	They	a cheap meal of chicken					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus

Option 4

They hated the bird because it had woken them up before dawn for years

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 woken	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 woken	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woken	aux
8	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hated	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 woken	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 woken	compound:prt
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 dawn	case
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woken	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 woken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	They	the bird					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	wake up	past · perfect · passive		bird			dawn; year		tree rules

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