Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…

So what's the deal with that white flower, is it some kind of magic weed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kind, deal · What happens: be · To what, where: deal, kind

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 deal	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 deal	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deal	det
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 flower	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 flower	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flower	amod
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 deal	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kind	nsubj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 kind	det
14	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 weed	case
16	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 weed	compound
17	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	some kind	the deal				with that white flower	tree rules
2	is a	present	the deal	some kind				of magic weed	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

It was a magic herb he chewed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 herb	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 herb	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 herb	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 herb	amod
5	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chewed	nsubj
7	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 herb	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a magic herb					tree rules
2	chew	past	he	a magic herb not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Patient

Option 2

He sniffed it all day long and it made him dizzy and sleepy

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 sniffed	nsubj
2	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sniffed	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sniffed	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sniffed	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sleepy	cc
13	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dizzy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	He	it			day	long property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	make	past	it	him = he				dizzy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product

Option 3

He sniffed it to stay sober

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 sniffed	nsubj
2	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sniffed	xcomp
6	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	He	it					tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	He not said here					sober property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Ulysses sniffed it to keep himself himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sniffed	nsubj
2	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sniffed	advcl
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 keep	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	Ulysses	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	Ulysses not said here	Ulysses					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme himself=Attribute

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