Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

Why'd the king go mental at Jason, like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: go · To what, where: Jason

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Jason	case
8	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 go	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the king			Jason		mental property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at jason=Location

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

he feared Jason would win

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	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 win	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 win	aux
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	win	would	Jason						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he thought Jason was a fool

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fool	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fool	det
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Jason	a fool					tree rules

Option 3

he feared Jason would fail

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	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fail	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fail	aux
5	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fail	would	Jason						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he was angry

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 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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