Test 1 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf: a bored…

Yo, did you hear the shepherd kid cry wolf, like, every five minutes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, shepherd kid · What happens: hear, cry · To what, where: shepherd kid, wolf

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 364 «Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf: a bored boy cries "Wolf!" for fun until a real wolf comes» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kid	det
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kid	compound
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
9	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hear	xcomp
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cry	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	9 cry	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 minutes	punct
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 minutes	det
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 minutes	nummod
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cry	obl:unmarked
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	you	the shepherd kid					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	the shepherd kid not said here	wolf			minute		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic

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 was a bit dodgy, and nobody came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 dodgy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dodgy	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dodgy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dodgy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dodgy	obl:unmarked
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dodgy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					a bit obl:unmarked; dodgy property	tree rules
2	come	past	nobody						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was well sus, and nobody came the last time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sus	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sus	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sus	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 sus	advmod
6	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sus	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					suspect, well property	tree rules
2	come	past	nobody				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yeah, totally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 totally	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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