Test 6 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

so how'd Medea wanna slip him the death juice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Medea · What happens: slip · To what, where: death juice, him

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 slip	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 slip	advmod
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 Medea	punct
4	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 slip	nsubj
5	wanna	wanna	PART	_	6 slip	mark
6	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slip	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 juice	det
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 juice	compound
10	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 slip	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	infinitive	Medea	the death juice	him = he				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination juice=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

a few drops in his wine cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drops	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drops	amod
3	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 cup	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cup	nmod:poss
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cup	compound
7	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

in cold water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 water	case
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a sip from the golden jug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sip	det
2	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 jug	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jug	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jug	amod
6	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sip	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a drop in his goblet of wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drop	det
2	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 goblet	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 goblet	nmod:poss
5	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drop	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wine	case
7	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goblet	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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