Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

Cock was pleading "spare me", why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cock · What happens: plead, spare · To what, where: Cock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pleading	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleading	aux
3	pleading	plead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 spare	punct
5	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pleading	obj
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 spare	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 spare	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 why	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 pleading	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pleading	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past · progressive	Cock						tree rules
2	spare in a quote	infinitive		Cock					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset

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

he guards the big house

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 guards	nsubj
2	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guards	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	he	the big house					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Beneficiary

Option 2

he wakes people up for work every morning at dawn

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 wakes	nsubj
2	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wakes	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 wakes	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 work	case
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wakes	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wakes	obl:unmarked
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dawn	case
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wakes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	present	he	people			dawn; morning	for work	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he wakes people up for work

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 wakes	nsubj
2	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wakes	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 wakes	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 work	case
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wakes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	present	he	people				for work	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4

he wakes the whole street up so the farmers can get to work early

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 wakes	nsubj
2	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 street	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 street	amod
5	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wakes	obj
6	up	up	ADV	_	2 wakes	advmod
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 get	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farmers	det
9	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wakes	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 work	mark
13	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 get	xcomp
14	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wake	present	he	the whole street		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent street=Patient
2	get	can	the farmers			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	work	to-infinitive	the farmers not said here		early property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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