Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes…

Medea chucked the potion down his throat, that was pure genius

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Medea, that · What happens: chuck down, be · To what, where: potion, pure genius

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	nsubj
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 potion	det
4	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	2 chucked	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 throat	nmod:poss
7	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 genius	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 genius	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 genius	cop
11	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 genius	amod
12	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck down	past	Medea	the potion					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent potion=Destination throat=Theme
2	is a	past	that	pure genius					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

nah bro, he fought back hard and nearly grabbed her arm before the stuff finally worked

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	2 bro	discourse
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fought	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bro	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fought	nsubj
5	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 fought	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fought	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grabbed	cc
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	10 grabbed	advmod
10	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fought	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arm	nmod:poss
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grabbed	obj
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 stuff	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stuff	det
15	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grabbed	obl
16	finally	finally	ADV	_	17 worked	advmod
17	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grabbed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	past	he			bro vocative; hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grab	past	he not said here	her arm	before the stuff	nearly property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	work	past	he not said here			finally property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she poured it in his mouth and he went quiet, then Jason ran off with the fleece

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 poured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 poured	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poured	nsubj
4	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poured	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poured	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poured	conj
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 went	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 ran	advmod
15	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ran	nsubj
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poured	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 ran	compound:prt
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 fleece	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fleece	det
20	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past	she	it	his mouth			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	go	past	he				quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run off	past	Jason			then	with the fleece	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with fleece=Material

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she knocked him out clean, no drama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 knocked	compound:prt
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knocked	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drama	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 drama	det
10	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	past	she	him = he				clean property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

yeah, she poured it in and he slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 poured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 poured	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poured	nsubj
4	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poured	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 poured	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slept	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slept	nsubj
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poured	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour in	past	she	it					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sleep	past	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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