Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

Which signal did King Aegeus request to be displayed upon a victorious return?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: signal · What happens: do, display · To what, where: Aegeus request

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2049 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the Minotaur, follows Ariadne's thread out, and sails away with the captives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 signal	det
2	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Aegeus	compound
5	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 request	compound
6	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 displayed	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 displayed	aux:pass
9	displayed	display	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 return	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 return	det
12	victorious	victorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 return	amod
13	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 displayed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which signal	Aegeus request					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	display	to-infinitive · passive	which signal not said here					upon a victorious return	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»

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

red flags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flags	amod
2	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

bright yellow sails flying from the mast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sails	amod
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sails	amod
3	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sails	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 mast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mast	det
7	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund	bright yellow sails not said here			the mast			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mast=Trajectory

Option 3

white flags high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flags	amod
2	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 high	obl:unmarked
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sunshiny sails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sunshiny	sunshiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sails	amod
2	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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