Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…

Real talk, why did Jason's dad lose the throne?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: lose · To what, where: throne

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lose	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lose	aux
6	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dad	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jason	case
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lose	nsubj
9	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 throne	det
11	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lose	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	Jason's dad	the throne					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Eventuality

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

His brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A rival king seized it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	rival	rival	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seized	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	a rival king	it					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pelias dethroned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dethroned	nsubj
2	dethroned	dethrone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dethroned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dethrone	past	Pelias	him = he					tree rules

Option 4

Pelias took his throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 throne	nmod:poss
4	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Pelias	Pelias's throne					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme

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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