Test 13 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

what did Medea whisper to dad, the mean part?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Medea whisper

This is test 13 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 whisper	compound
4	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 dad	case
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 part	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 part	det
9	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 part	amod
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dad	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Medea whisper				to dad	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisper=Eventuality

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

offer the wine to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wine	det
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 offer	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 offer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	imperative	you not said here	the wine	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent wine=Theme to he=Goal

Option 2

pour the wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wine	det
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pour	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	the wine					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

whisper to him that the stranger wants the throne and offer him the poisoned wine at once

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offer	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 whisper	nmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wants	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wants	nsubj
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 offer	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 throne	det
9	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wants	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 offer	cc
11	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 offer	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wine	det
14	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wine	amod
15	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offer	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 offer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	want	present	the stranger	the throne		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot throne=Theme
2	offer	infinitive	whisper to him	the poisoned wine	stranger	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal wine=Theme
3	poison	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

offer him the wine now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 offer	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wine	det
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 offer	obj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 offer	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	imperative	you not said here	the wine	him = he		now		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal wine=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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