Test 3 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf: a bored…

Bro, how did the boy feel when he was just messing about?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: feel, mess about

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 feel	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 feel	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feel	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	nsubj
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 messing	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 messing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 messing	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 messing	advmod
12	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 feel	advcl
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 messing	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the boy						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	mess about	past · progressive	boy					about 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

He felt quite bored and sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 bored	advmod
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sleepy	cc
6	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bored	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He					bored property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was dead chuffed with himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuffed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chuffed	aux:pass
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chuffed	amod
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 chuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		He				with himself = he	tree rules

Option 3

He was scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He felt guilty and wanted to go home to tell his mum the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tell	mark
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mum	nmod:poss
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 truth	det
14	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He			guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	want	past	He not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	He not said here	the truth	his mum		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient truth=Topic

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