Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 1: Theseus tries to l…

did he just give up and go home after one try?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: give up, go

This is test 4 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 go	cc
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	conj
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 try	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 try	nummod
11	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · do-support	he						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	infinitive	he not said here				after one try	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

No way, he kept tugging every single day and then his mum finally gave him a sword and a horse

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tugging	tug	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tugging	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 gave	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	nsubj
14	finally	finally	ADV	_	15 gave	advmod
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sword	det
18	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 horse	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sword	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	no way				tree rules
2	tug	gerund	no way not said here			day		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	give	past	his mum	a sword and a horse	him = he	then	finally property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sword=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he left and never came back again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 came	advmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come back	past	he not said here				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No way, he kept on tugging every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 tugging	mark
7	tugging	tug	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tugging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	no way					tree rules
2	tug	gerund	no way not said here				day		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yeah he gave up straight away and went home to play with his friends in the palace and forgot all about it

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 gave	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 gave	compound:prt
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 play	mark
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 friends	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friends	nmod:poss
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 play	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palace	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 friends	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 forgot	cc
19	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
20	all	all	ADV	_	19 forgot	advmod
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 forgot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he	away property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	he not said here	home property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	play	to-infinitive	he not said here	with his friends in the palace	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-Agent
4	forget	past	he not said here	about palace; all property	tree rules

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