Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Thes…

lowkey, what did the prisoners do in the dungeon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, prisoners · What happens: do · To what, where: dungeon

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prisoners	det
6	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dungeon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dungeon	det
10	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the prisoners			the dungeon			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

sobbed quietly in the dark until they finally fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 sobbed	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 dark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dark	det
5	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sobbed	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 fell	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sobbed	advcl
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	participle						in the dark; quietly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dark=Theme
2	fall	past	they					asleep, finally property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they sang and laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laughed	cc
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	they						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	past	they not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

fought with the guards all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 guards	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fought	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fought	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past					night	with the guards	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with guard=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sobbed themselves to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 sobbed	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sleep	mark
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sobbed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	past		themselves = they					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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