Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

What was the nature of Medea's comment upon the fallen warriors' conduct?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature, Medea, fallen warriors · What happens: be, fall, comment, conduct

This is exam question 3 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	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 comment	case
6	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 comment	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Medea	case
8	comment	comment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 conduct	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 warriors	det
11	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 warriors	amod
12	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 conduct	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 warriors	case
14	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comment	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of Medea's comment upon the fallen warriors's conduct		tree rules
2	fall	participle			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	comment		Medea	upon the fallen warriors's conduct	nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl
4	conduct		the fallen warriors		nom conduct «act transitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

She ridiculed their vanity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ridiculed	nsubj
2	ridiculed	ridicule	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	4 vanity	nmod:poss
4	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ridiculed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ridicule	past	She	their vanity					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanity=Theme

Option 2

She praised their courage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	nsubj
2	praised	praise	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	4 courage	nmod:poss
4	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 praised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	She	their courage					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme

Option 3

She scorned their foolishness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scorned	nsubj
2	scorned	scorn	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	4 foolishness	nmod:poss
4	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scorned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorn	past	She	their foolishness					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foolishness=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She mocked them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mocked	nsubj
2	mocked	mock	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 mocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past	She	them = they					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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