Test 2 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

yo why'd they wanna send him in as a random stranger?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: wanna, send in · To what, where: him

This is test 2 · ★ 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 why	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 wanna	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanna	nsubj
5	wanna	wanna	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 why	advcl:relcl
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanna	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 send	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	6 send	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 stranger	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stranger	det
11	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stranger	amod
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 send	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wanna	present	they						tree rules
2	send in	infinitive	they not said here	him = he				as a random stranger	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

to see if dad knew him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 knew	mark
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past	dad	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to see if dad would recognize him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 recognize	mark
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recognize	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 recognize	aux
6	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 recognize	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	recognize a condition, not said to happen	would	dad	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

to check his age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 age	nmod:poss
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive		his age					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme

Option 4

to find out who he was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 find	compound:prt
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 find	ccomp
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 who	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	to-infinitive							vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he						tree rules

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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