--- title: Cock was pleading "spare me", why? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice,… · tree and pragmatics description: Cock was pleading "spare me", why? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/394-pg21-part15/t7/) [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's Fables, The Cat and the Mice,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/394-pg21-part15/) / t7 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/394-pg21-part15/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t7:1 # text = Cock was pleading "spare me", why? 1 Cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 pleading plead VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 obj _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} he guards the big house ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t7:o1:1 # text = he guards the big house 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 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 {#o2} he wakes people up for work every morning at dawn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t7:o2:1 # text = he wakes people up for work every morning at dawn 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wakes wake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 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 {#o3} he wakes people up for work ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t7:o3:1 # text = he wakes people up for work 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wakes wake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 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 {#o4} he wakes the whole street up so the farmers can get to work early ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t7:o4:1 # text = he wakes the whole street up so the farmers can get to work early 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wakes wake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 up up ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 7 so so SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. 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