Test 2 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part…

Wait, why'd Jason lose a shoe, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Jason · What happens: wait, lose · To what, where: shoe

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	6 lose	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lose	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lose	aux
5	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lose	nsubj
6	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shoe	det
8	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lose	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoe	conj
11	?	?	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	lose	would	Jason	a shoe and mate					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality

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

He threw it at a goat

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	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 goat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goat	det
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	it				at a goat	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at goat=Destination

Option 2

The river swept it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swept	nsubj
3	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swept	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 swept	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep off	past	the river	it					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He lost it in the river

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	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	it		the river			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Gave it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past		it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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