Test 2 · ★ · Reynard the Fox, The Wolf and the Fox at the Well, part 10…

bruv the fox was lowkey lying about being ill, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: be, lie, innit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1144 «Reynard the Fox, The Wolf and the Fox at the Well, part 10: the hungry wolf and the cunning fox plan a feast of cheese, and the fox tricks the wolf into the bucket» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lowkey	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bruv	conj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lowkey	cop
5	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lowkey	advcl
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 ill	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 ill	cop
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lying	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 lowkey	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	bruv and the fox	lowkey property	tree rules
2	lie	gerund	bruv and the fox not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund	bruv and the fox not said here	ill property	tree rules
4	innit	infinitive			tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

she was faking, yeah, to fool him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 faking	aux
3	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yeah	punct
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 faking	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fool	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fool	mark
8	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 faking	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	she						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fool	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

nah she was properly poorly, coughing and shivering so the wolf would feel sorry for her

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 coughing	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coughing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coughing	aux
4	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 poorly	advmod
5	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	7 coughing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coughing	punct
7	coughing	cough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shivering	cc
9	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 coughing	conj
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 feel	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feel	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 feel	aux
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 coughing	advcl
15	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feel	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sorry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cough	past · progressive	she	poorly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shiver	gerund	she not said here		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	feel	would	the wolf	sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was playing it up to trick the wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 playing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 playing	aux
3	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 playing	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 playing	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 trick	mark
7	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 playing	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play up	past · progressive	she	it					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	trick	to-infinitive	she not said here	the wolf					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient

Option 4

she was sick, she couldn't help it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 help	advmod
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sick	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 help	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sick property	tree rules
2	not help	could	she	it		all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

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