Exam question 4 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

To what extent did Ariadne consent to accompany the company to Athens?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ariadne · What happens: consent, accompany · To what, where: company, Athens

This is exam question 4 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 consent	obj
3	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consent	aux
5	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 consent	nsubj
6	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 accompany	mark
8	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 consent	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 company	det
10	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accompany	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Athens	case
12	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 accompany	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 consent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consent	past · do-support	Ariadne						tree rules
2	accompany	to-infinitive	Ariadne not said here	the company	Athens				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent company=Theme to athens=Destination

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

she chose to stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chose	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	she						tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she declined to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 declined	nsubj
2	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 declined	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	past	she						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not go	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she accepted and sailed with them to Athens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 accepted	nsubj
2	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sailed	cc
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 accepted	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Athens	case
8	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past	she						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sail	past	she not said here			Athens		with them = they	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to athens=Trajectory

Option 4

she agreed to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 agreed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	she						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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