Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C…

Ngl, what did the crew do when the wind picked up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, pick up · To what, where: crew, wind

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ngl	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crew	det
6	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 do	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 when	nsubj
11	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wind	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 picked	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	the crew	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Eventuality
2	do	present	Ngl		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pick up	participle		the wind not said here	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

lowered the mast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mast	det
3	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lowered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lower	past		the mast					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mast=Theme

Option 2

dropped anchor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 anchor	amod
2	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	participle							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

rowed hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rowed	row	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 rowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row	participle						hard property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

trimmed the sails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trimmed	trim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sails	det
3	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 trimmed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trim	past		the sails					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient

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