Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…
why'd talus face-plant in the ocean lol
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 6 plant | punct |
| 3 | talus | talus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plant | compound |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plant | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 face | punct |
| 6 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 why | appos |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ocean | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ocean | det |
| 9 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plant | nmod |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 why | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
the sea pulled him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | the sea | him = he | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result |
Option 2
he lost balance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | he | balance | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
he overreached
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 overreached | nsubj |
| 2 | overreached | overreach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overreach | past | he | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
Option 4
he was weak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 weak | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 weak | cop |
| 3 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | weak property | tree rules |
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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