Test 10 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf: a bored…

Oi, were the villagers all dead keen to help the boy each time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: be, help · To what, where: villagers, boy

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 villagers	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 villagers	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 villagers	det
5	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 keen	det
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keen	amod
8	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 villagers	appos
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 keen	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obj
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 villagers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Oi	the villagers					tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive	Oi not said here		the boy		time		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Beneficiary

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

Yes, they came every single time he called

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 called	nsubj
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	past	he	every single time not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent time=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not the last time, they'd given up on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 time	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 given	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 given	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 given	aux
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 given	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	would	they				time	on him = he	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Not at all, they were always busy then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 busy	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Not	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 busy	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 busy	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 busy	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 busy	advmod
8	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 busy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	they				then	always, busy property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 always	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root

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

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