Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

did the minotaur say he'd toss him high?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: minotaur · What happens: say, toss · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 minotaur	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minotaur	det
3	minotaur	minotaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 toss	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 toss	aux
7	toss	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 toss	obj
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toss	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the minotaur						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	toss	would	minotaur	him = he				high property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

yes, fifty feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 feet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

yes, ten feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 feet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

yes, fifty feet high into the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 high	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 high	obl:unmarked
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 high	obl

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

Option 4

yes, he said he'd toss him fifty feet high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 toss	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 toss	aux
7	toss	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 toss	obj
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feet	nummod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 high	obl:unmarked
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toss	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	toss	would	he	him = he					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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