Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home…

lol, why would the king chuck his crown in the sea like that

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chuck · What happens: crown · To what, where: sea

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2050 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 9: Theseus comes home to grief, and the Giant Antaeus is introduced as friend of the Pygmies» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 crown	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crown	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 crown	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 crown	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chuck	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	compound
7	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crown	nsubj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 crown	nmod:poss
9	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crown	nmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 crown	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown		chuck			the sea		like that	nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place like=obl

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

cause he thought his boy was gone for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	acl:relcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 boy	nmod:poss
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he	cause not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cause=Theme
2	is	past	cause					for good; gone property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause he was so bummed, he figured his son was toast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 figured	obl:unmarked
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bummed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bummed	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 bummed	advmod
5	bummed	bum	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cause	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cause	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 figured	nsubj
8	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toast	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 toast	cop
12	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 figured	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bum	past · passive		he	tree rules
2	figure	past	he	cause	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	his son	toast	tree rules

Option 3

because he figured the Minotaur ate his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 figured	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 figured	nsubj
3	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ate	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Minotaur	det
5	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 figured	obj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	he	the Minotaur					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minotaur=Patient
2	eat	past		his son					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

Option 4

cause he was mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cause not said here				mad property	tree rules

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