Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C…

Be honest, what did the young people do on the boat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, young people · What happens: be, do · To what, where: boat

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 honest	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 boat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boat	det
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		honest property	tree rules
2	do	past				tree rules
3	do	present	the young people	the boat		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

sang songs and played games on deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sang	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 played	cc
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sang	conj
5	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 played	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 deck	case
7	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past		songs					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	play	past		games		deck			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Option 2

wept and prayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 prayed	cc
3	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past							vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	past							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

danced in circles and laughed loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 circles	case
3	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 danced	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 laughed	cc
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 danced	conj
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	participle				circles			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location
2	laugh	past						loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

danced and laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 laughed	cc
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 danced	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	past							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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