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title: Why'd the fox stay outside, yeah? — Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why'd the fox stay outside, yeah? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

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Why'd the fox stay outside, yeah?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/373-pg19994-part12/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t6:1
# text = Why'd the fox stay outside, yeah?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 was being sneaky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t6:o1:1
# text = He was being sneaky
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	sneaky	sneaky	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** | past | He |  |  |  |  | sneaky *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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He was being dead careful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t6:o2:1
# text = He was being dead careful
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	careful	careful	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** | past | He |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t6:o3:1
# text = He was bein' dead careful and didn't fancy goin' in with the rest
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bein	bein	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	goin	goin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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He was proper wary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:373-pg19994-part12:t6:o4:1
# text = He was proper wary
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wary	wary	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** | past | He |  |  |  |  | properly, wary *property* | tree rules |

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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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