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title: Yo, why'd the cat dress up as a doctor, bruv? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, why'd the cat dress up as a doctor, bruv? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

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Yo, why'd the cat dress up as a doctor, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** dress up

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/134-pg11339-part4/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t1:1
# text = Yo, why'd the cat dress up as a doctor, bruv?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress up** | infinitive | the cat |  |  |  |  | as a doctor and bruv | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To sneak up on the birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t1:o1:1
# text = To sneak up on the birds
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sneak	sneak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneak up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on the birds | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bird=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To hunt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t1:o2:1
# text = To hunt
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To scare birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t1:o3:1
# text = To scare birds
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	scare	scare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare** | to-infinitive |  | birds |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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To catch mice in the barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:134-pg11339-part4:t1:o4:1
# text = To catch mice in the barn
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | to-infinitive |  | mice |  | the barn |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |

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**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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