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title: yo the boy drowning wanted the traveller to help first right? — Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Do… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo the boy drowning wanted the traveller to help first right? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

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yo the boy drowning wanted the traveller to help first right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, traveller · **What happens:** drown, want, help · **To what, where:** traveller

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/398-pg21-part19/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t7:1
# text = yo the boy drowning wanted the traveller to help first right?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | gerund | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** | past | the boy | the traveller |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the traveller *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first, right *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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yeah the traveller helped only after he scolded him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t7:o1:1
# text = yeah the traveller helped only after he scolded him
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | the traveller |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scold** | past | traveller | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yeah, scold him first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t7:o2:1
# text = yeah, scold him first
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	scold	scold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scold** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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yeah help first, scold later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t7:o3:1
# text = yeah help first, scold later
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	scold	scold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scold** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, scold first then help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:398-pg21-part19:t7:o4:1
# text = yeah, scold first then help
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	scold	scold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scold** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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