Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps…

so what would the bulls do to some random dude, like proper

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bulls · What happens: do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2082 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps Jason tame the brazen bulls and sow the dragon's teeth» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bulls	det
5	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 dude	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 dude	det
9	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dude	amod
10	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proper	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 proper	case
13	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	the bulls					to some random dude; properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Shrivel him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shrivel	shrivel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shrivel	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Shrivel	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrivel up	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Turn him into ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turn	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 ash	case
4	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	him = he		ash			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into ash=Trajectory

Option 3

Burn him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Tear him to pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tear	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 pieces	case
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	imperative	you not said here	him = he				to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result

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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