Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

Medea reckoned Jason's night's work was what, exactly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Medea, work, night · What happens: reckon, be, work

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 night	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Jason	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 work	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 night	case
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 what	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	cop
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 reckoned	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 exactly	punct
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 reckoned	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	Medea	exactly property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Jason's night's work		tree rules
3	work		Jason's night		nom work «act intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

badly performed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 performed	advmod
2	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	participle						badly property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

it was a brilliant feat, well worth the praise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feat	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feat	det
4	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feat	amod
5	feat	feat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 praise	punct
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 praise	advmod
8	worth	worth	ADP	_	10 praise	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 praise	det
10	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a brilliant feat and the praise					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

well performed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	well	well	INTJ	_	2 performed	discourse
2	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	participle							vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

very well done, but cruelly so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	very	very	ADV	_	2 well	advmod
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 done	advmod
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cruelly	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 cruelly	cc
6	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	_	3 done	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	3 done	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle						cruelly, well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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