Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

how'd theseus feel when the horn grazed him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: 'd theseus, horn · What happens: feel, graze · To what, where: theseus

This is test 9 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 'd	advmod
2	'd	'd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 theseus	amod
3	theseus	theseus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grazed	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horn	det
7	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grazed	nsubj
8	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grazed	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	infinitive	'd theseus						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	graze	past	the horn	theseus					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer

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

knocked flat, then up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 knocked	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	1 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock up	participle						flat property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2

stunned, then got back up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stunned	stun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 got	advmod
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 stunned	conj
5	back	back	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stun	past							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	get back	past					then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

knocked flat on his back, then up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	flat	flat	ADV	_	1 knocked	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knocked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	1 knocked	compound:prt
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 up	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock up	participle				his back		flat property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location

Option 4

he dodged away

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 dodged	nsubj
2	dodged	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 dodged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge away	past	he					away property	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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