Test 11 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

what was Theseus gonna do for his dad, all sweet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Theseus · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2045 «A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine nearly kills Theseus before his father recognizes him» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	cop
3	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
4	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 do	dep
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 dad	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sweet	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sweet	advmod
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dad	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Theseus					for Theseus's dad; do 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

help him walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 help	obj
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	walk	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

hug him and hold him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hug	hug	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hug	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hold	cc
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 hug	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 hold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	hold up	infinitive	you not said here	him = he					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 3

bring him a cool drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bring	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drink	det
4	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	a cool drink	him = he				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination drink=Theme

Option 4

carry his heavy shield

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shield	nmod:poss
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shield	amod
4	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	his heavy shield					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=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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