Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…

Did Thasus actually end up a king?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: end up · To what, where: Thasus

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thasus	aux
2	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 end	advmod
4	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 end	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present		Thasus				actually property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient king=Result

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

Yup, he ruled a small farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruled	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ruled	nsubj
4	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 farm	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 farm	amod
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	he	a small farm				Yup vocative	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, the locals made him one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 locals	det
4	locals	local	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the locals	one	him = he			Yup vocative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary one=Product

Option 3

Yup, the locals made him one because he was upright and brave in battle

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 locals	det
4	locals	local	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 made	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 upright	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 upright	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 upright	cop
11	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brave	cc
13	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 upright	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 battle	case
15	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the locals	one	him = he	battle	Yup vocative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary one=Product
2	is	past	he				upright property	tree rules
3	be		he not said here					tree rules

Option 4

Yup, the locals made him one and he gave up his robe later on

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 locals	det
4	locals	local	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 made	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 gave	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 robe	nmod:poss
13	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 gave	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	10 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the locals	one	him = he			Yup vocative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary one=Product
2	give up	past	he	his robe				late property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Source

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