Test 1 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…

Mate, did the lions actually try to lick Ulysses, or was that just a cheeky bit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, lions · What happens: do, try, lick, be · To what, where: Ulysses, cheeky bit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2067 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits Circe with a magic flower and frightens her into begging for mercy» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lions	det
5	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 try	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 try	advmod
7	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 lick	mark
9	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lick	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bit	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 bit	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bit	cop
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 bit	mark
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 bit	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bit	det
17	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bit	amod
18	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl:unmarked
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate			tree rules
2	try	present	the lions		actually property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lick not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lions not said here	Ulysses		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ulysses=Source
4	is a	past		a cheeky bit		tree rules

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

They bit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	They	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They really tried to lick his feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 tried	advmod
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lick	mark
5	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	They						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lick not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	his feet					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Source

Option 3

They only pretended to lick his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pretended	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 pretended	advmod
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lick	mark
5	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pretended	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	They						tree rules
2	lick	to-infinitive	They not said here	his hands					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source

Option 4

They just wagged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wagged	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wagged	advmod
3	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	past	They						vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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