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Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

Yo, the cat hangs off a peg pretending to be dead, yeah? What's she actually after?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, peg · What happens: hang off, pretend, be · To what, where: peg

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» 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

Sentence 1: Yo, the cat hangs off a peg pretending to be dead, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 hangs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hangs	nsubj
5	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 hangs	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 peg	det
8	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hangs	obj
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 peg	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 dead	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pretending	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hangs	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hangs	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hangs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang off	present	the cat	a peg					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peg=Patient
2	pretend	gerund	a peg not said here						tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	a peg not said here					dead property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What's she actually after?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 after	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 after	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	1 What	acl:relcl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

getting the mice out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mice	det
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 getting	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 getting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	gerund		the mice				out property	tree rules

Option 2

trying to lure the mice out of their holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 lure	mark
3	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mice	det
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lure	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 holes	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 holes	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 holes	nmod:poss
9	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lure not said to happen	to-infinitive		the mice		mice's holes			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

eating the mice up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mice	det
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 eating	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	1 eating	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	gerund		the mice					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient

Option 4

catching the mouse soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 catching	obj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 catching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	gerund		the mouse				soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

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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