Test 4 · ★ · Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock a…

Wait, so the widow didn't hear the cock, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, widow · What happens: wait, not hear · To what, where: cock

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 hear	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 widow	det
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hear	advmod
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cock	det
10	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not hear	past · do-support	the widow	the cock					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cock=Stimulus

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

Nah, she woke them way later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 woke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 woke	nsubj
4	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 woke	obj
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woke	obj
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 woke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	she	them = they				late property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, she just stayed in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stayed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stayed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she			bed			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, so she woke them way earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 woke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 woke	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 woke	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 woke	nsubj
5	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 woke	obj
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woke	obl
8	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	she	them = they				way obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Nah, she heard the cock fine but got up later on the day anyway

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cock	det
6	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	xcomp
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 got	compound:prt
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 got	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
15	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	the cock				fine property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cock=Stimulus
2	get up	past	she not said here				day	anyway, late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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