Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 1: Theseus tries to l…

did he think he was super strong or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	3 think	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 strong	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 strong	cop
6	super	super	ADV	_	7 strong	advmod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 strong	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					strong, super 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

Yeah, he thought he was basically a beast already and could lift any rock in the whole kingdom easily

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 beast	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beast	cop
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	9 beast	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beast	det
9	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
10	already	already	ADV	_	9 beast	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lift	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 lift	aux
13	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	conj
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 rock	det
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lift	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 kingdom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kingdom	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 kingdom	amod
19	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lift	obl
20	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 lift	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	a beast		basically property	tree rules
3	lift	could	he not said here	any rock	the whole kingdom	easily property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rock=Theme in kingdom=Destination

Option 2

Nah, he knew he was just a weak little kid, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kid	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	11 kid	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kid	det
9	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kid	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kid	amod
11	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	he	a weak little kid and bro					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he thought he was basically a beast already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 beast	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beast	cop
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	9 beast	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beast	det
9	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
10	already	already	ADV	_	9 beast	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	a beast				basically property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, he knew he was small and weak, so he asked his mum to teach him how to be brave and strong

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 small	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 weak	cc
9	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 small	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 asked	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mum	nmod:poss
15	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 teach	mark
17	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 teach	obj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 brave	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	22 brave	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 brave	cop
22	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 teach	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 strong	cc
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	he		small property	tree rules
3	be		he not said here			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	he	his mum		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
5	teach speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is	to-infinitive	he not said here		brave property	tree rules
7	be		he not said here			tree rules

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