Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes…

was Jason scared or just being a mega hero bro

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: hero bro

This is test 6 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scared	compound
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 bro	cc
5	just	just	ADV	_	10 bro	advmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 bro	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bro	det
8	mega	mega	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hero	compound
9	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bro	compound
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						scared property	tree rules
2	is a	gerund		a hero bro					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 · ✓ the right answer

he was scared but still went for it, respect

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 respect	punct
10	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	go	past	he not said here				still	for it	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary

Option 2

nah bro, he wasn't scared at all, he just walked up to the tree and grabbed it like a boss

The tree, 21 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	13 walked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scared	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bro	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 scared	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walked	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walked	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 walked	advmod
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 walked	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walked	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grabbed	cc
19	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walked	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grabbed	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 boss	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 boss	det
23	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	bro	bro not said here	all	scared property	tree rules
2	walk up	past	bro			to the tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result
3	grab	past	bro not said here	tree		like a boss	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

he was dead scared, then did it anyway

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	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 did	advmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 did	obj
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					anyway, scared property	tree rules
2	do	past		it			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

he was scared at first but then he got over it and took the fleece back to the ship with the crew

The tree, 22 words

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 scared	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fleece	det
15	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	13 took	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 ship	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ship	det
19	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 crew	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 crew	det
22	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ship	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				scared property	tree rules
2	get	past	he		it	then		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination
3	take back	past	he not said here	the fleece	the ship with the crew			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fleece=Theme to ship=Destination

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