Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thr…

Bruh, why's the cock going on about waking folk up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cock · What happens: go on, wake up · To what, where: folk

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 138 «Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thrown out of a feast, a vain Monkey is trapped, and more short fables» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 going	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 going	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cock	det
6	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	nsubj
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 going	compound:prt
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 waking	mark
10	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 going	advcl
11	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waking	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 waking	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive	the cock						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wake up	gerund	the cock not said here	folk					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent folk=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 · ✓ the right answer

He's begging them not to cook him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begging	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 begging	aux
3	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begging	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 cook	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cook	mark
7	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begging	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present · progressive	He		them = they				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	him = he					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He's begging them to let him go so he can wake up the farmers

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begging	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 begging	aux
3	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begging	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begging	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 wake	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wake	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wake	aux
12	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 wake	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 farmers	det
15	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present · progressive	He		them = they	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wake up	can	he	the farmers		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent farmer=Patient

Option 3

He's telling them he's the best cock in the whole land and wants a reward

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 telling	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 telling	iobj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cock	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cock	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cock	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 cock	amod
9	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 land	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 land	amod
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cock	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wants	cc
15	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 reward	det
17	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	He		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is a	present	he	the best cock		the whole land	tree rules
3	want	present	He not said here	a reward			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reward=Theme

Option 4

He's warning them about the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warning	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warning	aux
3	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warning	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present · progressive	He		them = they			about the sun	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about sun=Topic

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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