Test 4 · ★ · Reynard the Fox, The Wolf and the Fox at the Well, part 10…

the fox said charity begins at home, so basically the wolf was being selfish

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox, charity, wolf · What happens: say, begin, be · To what, where: home, selfish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begins	nsubj
5	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begins	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 selfish	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 basically	advmod
10	basically	basically	ADV	_	15 selfish	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 selfish	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 selfish	cop
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 selfish	cop
15	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	begin	present	charity		home		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	past	the wolf	selfish		basically property	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

yeah, he didn't care about her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 care	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 care	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 care	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 care	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 care	advmod
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	he					about her = she	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about she=Stimulus

Option 2

yeah, he was greedy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 greedy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 greedy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 greedy	cop
5	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					greedy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he put his own tummy first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tummy	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tummy	amod
7	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	he	his own tummy				first property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tummy=Goal

Option 4

nah, he shared with the cubs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shared	nsubj
4	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cubs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cubs	det
7	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	past	he					with the cubs	tree rules

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