Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Thes…

ngl, what did she hand him that the guards had taken?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: hand, take · To what, where: him, guards

This is test 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. 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hand	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 hand	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hand	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hand	nsubj
6	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hand	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 taken	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taken	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taken	aux
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hand	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	past · do-support	ngl	him = he				ngl vocative	tree rules
2	take	past · perfect · passive		the guards					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 shield

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

his helmet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 helmet	nmod:poss
2	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the sword and the shield the guards took

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shield	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shield	det
5	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sword	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guards	det
7	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the sword and the shield						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

his sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sword	nmod:poss
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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