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Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

Proper sneaky, that mouse peeking out. What did he reckon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: peek out, reckon

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Proper sneaky, that mouse peeking out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 sneaky	advmod
2	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mouse	punct
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 mouse	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sneaky	obl
6	peeking	peek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 mouse	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 peeking	compound:prt
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sneaky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peek out	gerund	that mouse not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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.

Sentence 2: What did he reckon?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	mouse						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

he'd not come near her, not for all the cheese

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	4 come	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cheese	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 cheese	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 cheese	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 cheese	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cheese	det
12	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	would	he					near her = she	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he'd not come near her

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	4 come	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	would	he					near her = she	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location

Option 3

he reckoned she was pretending and he'd keep well clear of her paws

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	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pretending	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pretending	aux
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keep	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckoned	conj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 clear	advmod
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keep	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 paws	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 paws	nmod:poss
14	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 clear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pretend	past · progressive	she						tree rules
3	keep	would	he					clear property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he'd not trust her

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	4 trust	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 trust	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 trust	advmod
4	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trust	would	he	her = she					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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