Test 6 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf: a bored…

Was the boy skint or minted, going by how bored he was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be, mint, go

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skint	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skint	nsubj
4	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 minted	cc
6	minted	mint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 skint	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 skint	parataxis
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 bored	case
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 bored	advmod
11	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 going	xcomp
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bored	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bored	cop
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy	skint property	tree rules
2	mint	participle	the boy not said here		tree rules
3	go	gerund			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	boy	bored 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 · ← Mova's choice

He was rich and bored with his sheep life

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 rich	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rich	cop
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bored	cc
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rich	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 life	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sheep	nmod:poss
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 life	nsubj
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rich	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					with life; rich property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was bored out of his skull, with nothing to do

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 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	aux:pass
3	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 skull	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 skull	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 skull	nmod:poss
7	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bored	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 bored	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore out	past · passive		He		his skull			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer skull=Result
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was actually quite well off, with a big house and a stash of money from his master's trade

The tree, 20 words

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	11 house	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 house	cop
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 off	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 off	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 off	advmod
6	off	off	ADV	_	11 house	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 house	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stash	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stash	det
14	stash	stash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 money	case
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stash	nmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	21 trade	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 master	nmod:poss
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trade	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 master	case
21	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		his master's trade	with a big house and a stash of money; off property	tree rules
2	stash			money			nom stash «possession transitive»: of=patient
3	trade		his master				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He was fed up and had nothing much to do

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 fed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux:pass
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 fed	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 had	obj
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nothing	amod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 much	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	feed up	past · passive	He	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	have	past	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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