Test 1 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 1: Theseus tries to l…

yo, so Theseus is like a tiny kid trying to lift a rock his mum made up as a test, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Theseus, tiny kid · What happens: be, try, lift, make up · To what, where: rock

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2043 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 1: Theseus tries to lift a heavy rock that his mother says hides the way to Athens» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 kid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 kid	advmod
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kid	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kid	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 kid	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kid	det
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kid	amod
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	nsubj
10	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kid	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lift	mark
12	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 trying	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rock	det
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lift	obj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mum	nmod:poss
16	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lift	obj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 made	compound:prt
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 test	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 test	det
21	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
23	right	right	INTJ	_	17 made	discourse
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Theseus		like a tiny kid	tree rules
2	try	gerund	a tiny kid not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lift not said to happen	to-infinitive	a tiny kid not said here	a rock		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme mum=Destination
4	make up	past	a tiny kid		as a test	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Totally, and the rock never budges, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	7 budges	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 budges	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 budges	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rock	det
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 budges	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 budges	advmod
7	budges	budge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dude	punct
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 budges	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not budge	present	the rock	dude				totally property	tree rules

Option 2

Kinda, but he's not that small, dude really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	8 small	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 small	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 small	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 small	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 small	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 small	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 small	mark
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dude	punct
10	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 small	conj
11	really	really	ADV	_	10 dude	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	he					kinda, small property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Totally, and he tries for ages but the rock still won't move an inch, bro, so he waits

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	5 tries	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tries	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tries	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tries	nsubj
5	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ages	case
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tries	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 move	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rock	det
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 move	nsubj
11	still	still	ADV	_	14 move	advmod
12	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 move	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 move	advmod
14	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tries	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 inch	det
16	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 move	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bro	punct
18	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inch	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 waits	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 waits	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 waits	nsubj
22	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tries	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	he		for ages	totally property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not move	future	the rock	a inch and bro	still		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inch=Theme
3	wait	present	rock				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Sorta, he's small but keeps going, mate yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sorta	Sorta	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 small	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sorta	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 keeps	cc
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	conj
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keeps	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 small	parataxis
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 mate	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sorta	small property	tree rules
2	keep	present	Sorta not said here		tree rules
3	go	gerund	Sorta not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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