Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

What was the principal reason King Aetes refused Jason further permission?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: principal reason, King · What happens: be, refuse · To what, where: Jason further permission

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 refused	nsubj
7	Aetes	Aetes	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	flat
8	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl:relcl
9	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 permission	compound
10	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 permission	amod
11	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refused	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the principal reason						tree rules
2	refuse	past	King	Jason further permission					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme

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

He dreaded Jason's success

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dreaded	nsubj
2	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 success	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Jason	case
5	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dreaded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dread	past	He	Jason's success					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer success=Stimulus

Option 2

He feared Medea's betrayal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 betrayal	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Medea	case
5	betrayal	betrayal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	He	Medea's betrayal					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer betrayal=Stimulus
2	betray		Medea						nom betrayal «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He hated Jason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	He	Jason					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jason=Stimulus

Option 4

He was jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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