Test 2 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf: a bored…

Mate, why didn't the villagers come when the real wolf showed up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: villagers, real wolf · What happens: not come, show up

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 come	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 come	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 villagers	det
7	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mate	conj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 showed	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wolf	amod
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 showed	nsubj
13	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 showed	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support	the villagers						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show up	past	the real wolf						vn appear-48.1.1 «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

They had decided the boy was not worth saving anymore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 decided	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 decided	aux
3	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worth	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 worth	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 worth	advmod
8	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 decided	conj
9	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 worth	csubj
10	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	9 saving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	decide	past · perfect	They		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	the boy	worth property	tree rules
3	save	gerund		anymore property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They thought the wolf was just a dog, so they stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dog	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dog	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 dog	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stayed	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 stayed	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stayed	nsubj
12	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the wolf	a dog	tree rules
3	stay	past	they		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They'd been done over twice, so they thought he was lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 done	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 thought	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lying	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lying	aux
13	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do over	past · perfect · passive		They	over, twice property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	past	they			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	lie	past · progressive	he			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They were too busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 busy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 busy	advmod
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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