Exam question 4 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Thes…

Which phrase best characterizes King Minos's response to Ariadne's entreaty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: characterize · To what, where: response

This is exam question 4 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 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterizes	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 characterizes	advmod
4	characterizes	characterize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 response	nmod:poss
6	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 King	flat
7	's	's	PART	_	5 King	case
8	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterizes	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 entreaty	case
10	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 entreaty	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Ariadne	case
12	entreaty	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 response	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 characterizes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characterize	present	which phrase	King's response				to Ariadne's entreaty; well property	vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent response=Theme to entreaty=be'

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 right answer

he rejected her plea with contempt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rejected	nsubj
2	rejected	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 plea	nmod:poss
4	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rejected	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 contempt	case
6	contempt	contempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rejected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reject	past	he	her plea				with contempt	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plea=Theme

Option 2

he agreed quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 agreed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	he					quickly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he granted her a kind reply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 granted	nsubj
2	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 granted	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reply	det
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reply	amod
6	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 granted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	past	he	a kind reply	her = she				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal reply=Theme

Option 4

he ignored her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	he	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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