Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

Thieves reckon the cock has to go cos?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Thieves, cock · What happens: reckon, have, go · To what, where: cos

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reckon	nsubj
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cock	det
4	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckon	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 has	xcomp
8	cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	present	Thieves		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	present	the cock		tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	the cock not said here	cos	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location co=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

he ate the chickens

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chickens	det
4	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	the chickens					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Patient

Option 2

he's too loud

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 loud	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

he scared the master

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 scared	nsubj
2	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past	he	the master					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus master=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he woke the neighbours

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 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neighbours	det
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 woke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	he	the neighbours					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neighbour=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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