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title: Thieves reckon the cock has to go cos? — Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thieves reckon the cock has to go cos? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

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Thieves reckon the cock has to go cos?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/394-pg21-part15/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t8:1
# text = Thieves reckon the cock has to go cos?
1	Thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	cos	co	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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 {#o1}

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he ate the chickens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t8:o1:1
# text = he ate the chickens
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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he's too loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t8:o2:1
# text = he's too loud
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he scared the master

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t8:o3:1
# text = he scared the master
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scared	scare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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he woke the neighbours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:394-pg21-part15:t8:o4:1
# text = he woke the neighbours
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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