Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Thes…

What was the designation of the creature that Theseus sought at the labyrinth's center?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: designation, Theseus · What happens: be, seek, designate · To what, where: creature, center

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 designation	det
4	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 creature	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creature	det
7	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designation	nmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 sought	mark
9	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sought	nsubj
10	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 creature	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 center	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 labyrinth	det
13	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 center	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 labyrinth	case
15	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sought	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the designation of the creature			tree rules
2	seek	past	Theseus	the creature not said here	the labyrinth's center	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent creature=Theme at center=Location
3	designate			the creature		nom designation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

the Cretan king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	Cretan	Cretan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	compound
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the beast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beast	det
2	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a bull-man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 bull	punct
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Minotaur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Minotaur	det
2	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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