Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…
Didn't the king say Jason's not allowed to nick the Fleece?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, Jason · What happens: do, not say, not allow, nick · To what, where: Jason, Fleece · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 6 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 allowed | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 allowed | advmod |
| 9 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 say | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 nick | mark |
| 11 | nick | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allowed | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fleece | det |
| 13 | Fleece | fleece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nick | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | present | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not allow | present · passive | Jason | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | nick not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jason not said here | the Fleece | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Patient |
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
yes, but only one more try
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 try | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 try | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 try | nummod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 try | amod |
| 7 | try | try | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
no more tries, on pain of death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | ADV | _ | 3 tries | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 tries | amod |
| 3 | tries | try | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pain | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 pain | case |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tries | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pain | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pain | death | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
no more tries, and he must leave Colchis by sunset
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | ADV | _ | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 tries | amod |
| 3 | tries | try | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 leave | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 leave | aux |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tries | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Colchis | Colchis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 sunset | case |
| 11 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | must | he | Colchis | sunset | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colchis=Theme |
Option 4
yes, one more try
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 try | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 try | nummod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 try | amod |
| 5 | try | try | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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