Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

Why'd the fox stay outside, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: stay

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stay	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	nsubj
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stay	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	the fox					outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He was being sneaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sneaky	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sneaky	cop
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sneaky	cop
4	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was being dead careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 careful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 careful	cop
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 careful	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 careful	amod
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was bein' dead careful and didn't fancy goin' in with the rest

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bein	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bein	aux
3	bein	bein	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 bein	punct
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 careful	amod
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bein	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fancy	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fancy	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fancy	advmod
10	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bein	conj
11	goin	goin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fancy	obj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 goin	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 rest	case
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 rest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fancy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bein	past · progressive	He					careful property	tree rules
2	not fancy	past · do-support	He not said here	goin		the rest			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goin=Stimulus

Option 4

He was proper wary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wary	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wary	cop
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 wary	advmod
4	wary	wary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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