Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

What did Jason reckon the dragon would do to the crew?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jason, dragon · What happens: reckon, do

This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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	4 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
3	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckon	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 crew	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crew	det
11	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Jason						tree rules
2	do	would	the dragon					to the crew	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

snap the lot of them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lot	det
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 snap	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lot	nmod
6	up	up	ADP	_	1 snap	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap up	imperative	you not said here	the lot of them					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lot=Theme

Option 2

eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

burn the ship and the men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ship	det
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burn	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 men	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 burn	conj

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

Option 4

kill the crew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crew	det
3	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	the crew					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=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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