Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with o…
why was the king so scared of a guy with one shoe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 why | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 why | appos |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 scared | advmod |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 guy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 guy | det |
| 9 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scared | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 shoe | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 shoe | nummod |
| 12 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guy | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | why 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 · ← Mova's choice
cause the oracle said a one-shoe dude would knock him out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oracle | det |
| 3 | oracle | oracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dude | det |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 shoe | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 8 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dude | compound |
| 9 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knock | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 knock | aux |
| 11 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knock | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 knock | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the oracle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | knock out | would | a shoe dude | oracle | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2
cause a prophecy said a one-sandal guy would take his crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prophecy | det |
| 3 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 guy | det |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sandal | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 8 | sandal | sandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guy | compound |
| 9 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crown | nmod:poss |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a prophecy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | would | a sandal guy | guy's crown | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crown | guy | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
cause a prophecy said so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prophecy | det |
| 3 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a prophecy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
cause a prophecy said a one-sandal dude would toss him off the throne
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prophecy | det |
| 3 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dude | det |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sandal | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 8 | sandal | sandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dude | compound |
| 9 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 toss | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 toss | aux |
| 11 | toss | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 toss | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 throne | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 throne | det |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 toss | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a prophecy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | toss | would | a sandal dude | prophecy | the throne | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme off throne=Initial_Location |
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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