Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

was the thunder fr thunder or was it the monster?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: thunder, monster · What happens: be · To what, where: fr thunder, it

This is test 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. 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thunder	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thunder	det
3	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thunder	nsubj
4	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thunder	compound
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 it	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thunder	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monster	det
10	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 it	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thunder	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	thunder	the fr thunder					tree rules
2	is a	past	the monster	it					tree rules

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

the bull's bellow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bull	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bellow	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bull	case
4	bellow	bellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bellow		the bull						nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the monster's roar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monster	det
2	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roar	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 monster	case
4	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar		the monster						nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the monster's roar from the labyrinth walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monster	det
2	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roar	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 monster	case
4	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
7	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walls	compound
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar		the monster			the labyrinth walls			nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent from=place

Option 4

it was the monster's roar in the maze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 roar	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 roar	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monster	det
4	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roar	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 monster	case
6	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 maze	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maze	det
9	maze	maze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the monster's roar		the maze			tree rules

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