Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with o…

ok so why was the whole town being so extra about his feet?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole town · What happens: be · To what, where: whole town

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	10 extra	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	10 extra	advmod
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 town	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 town	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 town	amod
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 extra	nsubj
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 extra	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 extra	advmod
10	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feet	nmod:poss
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 extra	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 extra	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the whole town					tree rules
2	is	gerund	the whole town					about his feet; extra property	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

cause one foot was bare and they had never seen that before, and the oracle said a one-sandal guy was trouble

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 foot	nummod
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bare	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bare	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seen	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 seen	advmod
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 bare	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 before	mark
12	before	before	ADV	_	10 seen	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 oracle	det
16	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 guy	det
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 sandal	nummod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
21	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guy	compound
22	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trouble	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 trouble	cop
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	one foot		bare property	tree rules
3	not see	past · perfect	they		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	the oracle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	a sandal guy	trouble		tree rules

Option 2

cause one foot was bare and the whole town was sure it was some kind of bad omen from the gods

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 foot	nummod
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bare	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bare	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sure	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sure	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sure	cop
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kind	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kind	cop
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 kind	det
15	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sure	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 omen	case
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 omen	amod
18	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kind	nmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 gods	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gods	det
21	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	one foot		bare property	tree rules
3	is	past	the whole town		sure property	tree rules
4	is a	past	town	some kind	of bad omen; from the gods	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause one foot was bare and they had never seen that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 foot	nummod
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bare	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bare	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seen	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 seen	advmod
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 bare	conj
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	one foot		bare property	tree rules
3	not see	past · perfect	they	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

cause one foot was bare and nobody had seen it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 foot	nummod
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bare	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bare	cop
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 seen	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 seen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bare	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	one foot		bare property	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	nobody	foot		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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