Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Thes…

fr, what was on the other end of the string?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be · To what, where: other end

This is test 13 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 end	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 end	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 end	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 end	amod
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 string	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 string	det
11	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	fr				on the other end	of the string	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Ariadne's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hand	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ariadne	case
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the hand of the princess Ariadne waiting at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hand	det
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 princess	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hand	nmod
6	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 princess	appos
7	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hand	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	the hand of the princess not said here			the gate			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the old door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 door	amod
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Minos's cold hand holding the far end tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hand	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Minos	case
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hand	amod
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hand	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
7	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 end	amod
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obj
9	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 holding	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	Minos's cold hand not said here	the far end				tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=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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