Test 11 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf: a bored…

Did the boy shout wolf when there was actually a wolf around, bro?

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

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shout	nsubj
4	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shout	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 was	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 around	cop
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 around	obl:unmarked
12	around	around	ADV	_	4 shout	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bro	punct
14	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shout	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	the boy	wolf					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
2	is	past	the boy not said here					a wolf obl:unmarked; around 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 · ✓ the right answer

No, there was no wolf the first two times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 times	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 times	amod
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 was	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no wolf			there	time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a wolf came the first time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a wolf				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, there was a wolf near the sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 sheep	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sheep	det
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a wolf			there		near the sheep	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near sheep=Location

Option 4

Yes, the wolf was there all along, but the boy shouted early by mistake before it arrived

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 there	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arrived	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 arrived	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arrived	nsubj
13	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 boy	acl
14	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 shouted	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 mistake	case
16	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shouted	obl
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mistake	nmod
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolf		along, there property	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	participle		the boy not said here	by mistake before wolf; early property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	arrive	past	the boy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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