Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with o…

did the king actually want to be nice to jason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, want, be · To what, where: king

This is test 6 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 nice	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 nice	cop
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 want	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 jason	case
10	jason	jason	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nice	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the king		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
2	want	present		actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive		to jason; nice 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

nah, he was lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he was faking it to trap him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 faking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 faking	aux
5	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 trap	mark
8	trap	trap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 faking	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	he	it					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	trap	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

nah, he was acting to fool him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 acting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 acting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 acting	aux
5	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fool	mark
7	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 acting	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · progressive	he						tree rules
2	fool	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

no, he was mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	cop
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mean property	tree rules

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