Test 4 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason…

Did he actually lose a sandal, or is that just a joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, lose, be · To what, where: sandal, joke

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2077 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason carries an old woman across a river and loses a sandal» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lose	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 lose	advmod
4	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sandal	det
6	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 joke	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 joke	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 joke	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 joke	mark
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 joke	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 joke	det
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	present	he	a sandal	actually property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Eventuality
3	is a	present		a joke		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 · ← Mova's choice

He lost one golden sandal in the river, and the old lady said it was lucky

The tree, 16 words

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sandal	nummod
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sandal	amod
5	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lady	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lady	amod
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lucky	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lucky	cop
17	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	one golden sandal	the river		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the old lady				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	sandal			lucky property	tree rules

Option 2

He lost both his sandals

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sandals	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sandals	nmod:poss
5	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his sandals					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Eventuality

Option 3

He lost one golden sandal in the river while the old woman watched from the far bank calmly

The tree, 18 words

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sandal	nummod
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sandal	amod
5	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 watched	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 watched	nsubj
13	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 bank	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bank	det
16	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bank	amod
17	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 watched	obl
18	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	13 watched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	one golden sandal		the river			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Eventuality
2	watch	past	the old woman			the far bank		calmly property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He lost one golden sandal

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sandal	nummod
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sandal	amod
5	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	one golden sandal					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Eventuality

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