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

deadass, what did the king tell his daughter to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the king		king's daughter			deadass vocative	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here						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 · ✓ the right answer

go water your flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 flowers	nmod:poss
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	water and your flowers					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme

Option 2

tend the garden at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tend	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	imperative	you not said here	the garden			dawn		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme

Option 3

go find the guards and tell them your orders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 go	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 go	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 orders	nmod:poss
9	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	infinitive	you not said here	the guards		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	your orders	guards = guard	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient order=Topic
4	order		your			nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

stay inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	inside	inside	ADV	_	1 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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