Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox be…

what was the Cock doing with his head?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cock · What happens: be, do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 369 «Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox begs a wary Cock to come down with false news of peace» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cock	det
4	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Cock	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Cock						tree rules
2	do	gerund	the Cock not said here					with his head	vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Tucked it under wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tucked	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	4 wing	case
4	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck	participle		it		wing			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme under wing=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stretched up on tiptoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Stretched	compound:prt
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 tiptoes	case
4	tiptoes	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stretched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch up	participle				tiptoes			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Looked down at ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Looked	compound:prt
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 ground	case
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look down	past						at ground	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ground=Theme

Option 4

Hid his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past		his head					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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