Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Thes…

Which object did Ariadne bestow upon Theseus to secure his return from the labyrinth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Ariadne · What happens: bestow, secure, return · To what, where: return, labyrinth

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2048 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Theseus and gives him a silken string to find his way through the maze.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bestow	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bestow	aux
4	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bestow	nsubj
5	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 Theseus	case
7	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bestow	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 secure	mark
9	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bestow	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 return	nmod:poss
11	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secure	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 labyrinth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 labyrinth	det
14	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secure	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · do-support	which object			upon Theseus	tree rules
2	secure	to-infinitive	which object not said here	Ariadne's return	the labyrinth		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent return=Theme from labyrinth=Source
3	return		Ariadne				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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

a silver sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sword	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sword	amod
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a silken string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 string	det
2	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 string	amod
3	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a silken string tied to the bronze door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 string	det
2	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 string	amod
3	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 string	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	compound
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a silken string not said here				to the bronze door	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to door=Co-Patient

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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