Test 1 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…

Wait, so Cilix just quit the whole quest, for real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Cilix · What happens: wait, quit · To what, where: whole quest

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quit	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 quit	advmod
4	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 quit	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 quit	advmod
6	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 quest	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 quest	amod
9	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quit	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	quit	past	Cilix	the whole quest					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Source

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

Nah, he kept searching for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 searching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	search	gerund	he not said here					for her = she	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he gave up and stayed put, building a home where the bower once stood

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux:pass
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gave	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 building	punct
10	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 put	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 home	det
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 building	obj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 stood	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bower	det
15	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	nsubj
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 stood	advmod
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 building	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	past · passive	he not said here			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»
3	build	gerund	he not said here	a home		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product
4	stand	past	the bower		once property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nope, he kept going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	go	gerund	he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he gave up and stayed put

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stayed	cc
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	give up	past	he	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	past	he not said here	tree rules
3	put	participle	he not said here	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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