Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes…

Orpheus with the harp was lit, that song was fire

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: song · What happens: lit, be · To what, where: harp, fire

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2084 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes the Golden Fleece with Medea's magic and sails away» 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	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	SCONJ	_	6 lit	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harp	det
4	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	aux:pass
6	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Orpheus	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fire	punct
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 song	det
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fire	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fire	cop
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Orpheus	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		the harp					tree rules
2	is a	past	that song	fire					tree rules

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

nah, the crew was half asleep then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 asleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crew	det
4	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asleep	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asleep	cop
6	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 asleep	advmod
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 asleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the crew				then	asleep, half property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, everyone was clapping along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 clapping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 clapping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clapping	aux
5	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 clapping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past · progressive	everyone					along property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the whole crew was singing along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 singing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crew	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crew	amod
5	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 singing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 singing	aux
7	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 singing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the whole crew					along property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, the crew were all rowing so hard they couldn't even hear the harp that night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 rowing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crew	det
4	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rowing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rowing	aux
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 rowing	advmod
7	rowing	row	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 hard	advmod
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 hear	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hear	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hear	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 hear	advmod
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rowing	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 harp	det
16	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	obj
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row	past · progressive	the crew					all property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	not hear	could	they	the harp			night	hard property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer harp=Stimulus

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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