Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a d…

the widow woke her maids up at cockcrow, then they killed the rooster, what happened next?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: widow, they, rooster · What happens: wake up, kill, happen · To what, where: maids, cockcrow, rooster

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 388 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a doctor is sent packing» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 widow	det
2	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woke	nsubj
3	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 maids	nmod:poss
5	maids	maids	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 woke	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 woke	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 cockcrow	case
8	cockcrow	cockcrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 killed	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 killed	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 killed	nsubj
12	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 woke	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rooster	det
14	rooster	rooster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 killed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happened	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happened	nsubj
17	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rooster	acl:relcl
18	next	next	ADV	_	17 happened	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 woke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	the widow	maids	cockcrow			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent maids=Patient
2	kill	past	they	the rooster		then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rooster=Theme
3	happen	past	the rooster				next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

she woke them at midnight, the middle of the night, to get back at them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 middle	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 woke	advcl
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	she	them = they			midnight	the middle of the night obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	get back	to-infinitive	she not said here					at them = they	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she woke them at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 midnight	case
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obl

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

Option 3

she woke them in the middle of the night and scolded them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scolded	cc
11	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 woke	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 scolded	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	she	them = they		the middle of the night			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	scold	past	she not said here	them = they					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

she woke them at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woke	obl

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

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