Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

To what effect did Jason's stone act upon the assembled warriors?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: effect, Jason · What happens: do, assemble, act · To what, where: stone act

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2083 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors sprout from the teeth and fight to the death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 act	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Jason	case
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 act	compound
8	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 warriors	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 warriors	det
11	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 warriors	amod
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	effect	Jason's stone act	upon the assembled warriors	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Eventuality
2	assemble	participle				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	act		Jason			nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=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

It caused their mutual slaughter here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 slaughter	nmod:poss
4	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slaughter	amod
5	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 caused	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	It	their mutual slaughter		here			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition slaughter=Patient
2	slaughter		their = they						nom slaughter «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It set them against one another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	obj
4	against	against	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 set	obl
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	It	them = they				against one	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme against one=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It induced mutual combat among them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 induced	nsubj
2	induced	induce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 combat	amod
4	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 induced	obj
5	among	among	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 induced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	induce	past	It	mutual combat				among them = they	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It caused the warriors to turn upon one another in mutual combat and die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 warriors	det
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caused	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 turn	mark
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 caused	xcomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 turn	obj
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	fixed
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 combat	case
11	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 combat	amod
12	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 die	cc
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	past	It	the warriors		tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive	the warriors not said here	one	in mutual combat	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Patient in combat=Topic
3	die	infinitive	the warriors not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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