Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with o…

and what did the Oak tell jason to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oak, jason · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: jason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2078 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with one sandal meets King Pelias and gets a quest» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 did	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
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 Oak	det
5	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	jason	jason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the Oak	jason	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jason=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	jason not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

build a galley with fifty oars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 galley	det
3	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 build	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 oars	case
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 oars	nummod
6	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	imperative	you not said here	a galley				with fifty oars	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent galley=Theme with oar=Source

Option 2

build a galley with fifty oars and find Argus to lead the crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 galley	det
3	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 build	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 oars	case
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 oars	nummod
6	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 build	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 find	cc
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 build	conj
9	Argus	Argus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 build	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lead	mark
11	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 build	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crew	det
13	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lead	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	imperative	you not said here	a galley	with fifty oars	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset galley=Beneficiary argus=Product
2	find	infinitive	you not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	lead	to-infinitive	you not said here	the crew		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Theme

Option 3

build a warship with twelve oars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 warship	det
3	warship	warship	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 build	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 oars	case
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 oars	nummod
6	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	imperative	you not said here	a warship				with twelve oars	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent warship=Theme with oar=Source

Option 4

build a galley with fifty oars and sail to the sea right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 galley	det
3	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 build	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 oars	case
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 oars	nummod
6	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 build	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sail	cc
8	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oars	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sail	nmod
12	right	right	ADV	_	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	1 build	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	imperative	you not said here	a galley				with fifty oars and sail to the sea; away property	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent galley=Theme with oar=Source

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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