--- title: Hang on, what's "abed" mean? — Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants:… · tree and pragmatics description: Hang on, what's "abed" mean? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 135 «Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock and wake up even earlier» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/135-pg11339-part5/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/135-pg11339-part5/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock a… Hang on, what's "abed" mean? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hang on, be, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 135 «Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock and wake up even earlier» 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/135-pg11339-part5/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:135-pg11339-part5:t8:1 # text = Hang on, what's "abed" mean? 1 Hang hang VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 abed abed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang on** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | abed *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} At rest ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:135-pg11339-part5:t8:o1:1 # text = At rest 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} In bed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:135-pg11339-part5:t8:o2:1 # text = In bed 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Up ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:135-pg11339-part5:t8:o3:1 # text = Up 1 Up up ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Awake ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:135-pg11339-part5:t8:o4:1 # text = Awake 1 Awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: [Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants:…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/135-pg11339-part5/t7/) - next →: [Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants:…, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/135-pg11339-part5/t9/) - ↑ back to [Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock and wake up even earlier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/135-pg11339-part5/)