Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

ngl, what did the horn do after that first charge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, horn · What happens: do · To what, where: horn

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horn	det
6	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 horn	acl:relcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 charge	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 charge	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 charge	amod
11	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl	the horn					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Eventuality
2	do	present	the horn not said here				after that first charge		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

broke clean off near the skull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 broke	xcomp
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 clean	compound:prt
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 skull	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skull	det
6	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past				the skull			tree rules
2	clean off	infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

snapped off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snapped	snap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 snapped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap off	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

bent backward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bent	bent	X	Foreign=Yes	2 backward	dep
2	backward	backward	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 4

cracked apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	apart	apart	ADV	_	1 cracked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past						apart property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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