Test 12 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part…

Wait, what did the old lady promise Jason?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old lady · What happens: wait, promise · To what, where: Jason

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 537 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason crosses a river, meets his uncle, and sails to Lemnos» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 promise	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	nsubj
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
9	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 promise	iobj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	the old lady		Jason				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent jason=Goal what=Theme

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

To help him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive			him = he				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To shelter him from storms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 shelter	mark
2	shelter	shelter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shelter	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 storms	case
5	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shelter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shelter	to-infinitive		him = he		storms			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient from storm=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To guide and protect him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 guide	mark
2	guide	guide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 protect	cc
4	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 guide	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guide	to-infinitive							vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	protect	infinitive			him = he				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 4

To give gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		gold					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

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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