Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Thes…

yo, did Theseus wanna bail on the whole mission?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Theseus wanna bail, whole mission

This is test 8 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bail	compound
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 bail	compound
6	bail	bail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 mission	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mission	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mission	amod
10	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Theseus wanna bail		the whole mission			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bail=Eventuality

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

no, he wanted to stay with the princess and forget the quest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stay	mark
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 princess	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 forget	cc
11	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stay	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 quest	det
13	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		with the princess	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with princess=Location
3	forget	infinitive	he not said here	the quest		tree rules

Option 2

yes, he tried to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	he						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yes, he wanted to bail out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bail	mark
6	bail	bail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 bail	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	bail out not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

no, he wanted to slay the Minotaur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 slay	mark
6	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Minotaur	det
8	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 slay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	slay not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the Minotaur					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minotaur=Patient

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