Test 13 · ★ · Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the fie…

Real talk, what was Jason's signal after the killing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: signal

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 539 «Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the field of Ares, the Fleece and a murder» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 signal	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 signal	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 signal	cop
6	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 signal	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jason	case
8	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 killing	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 killing	det
11	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 signal	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Real talk	Jason's signal			after the killing		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

He shouted to his men loudly

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 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 men	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 men	nmod:poss
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shouted	obl
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 shouted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	He		his men			loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He waved a lit torch in the air

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 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torch	det
4	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 torch	amod
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	a lit torch				in the air	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent torch=Patient in air=Theme

Option 3

He waved a lit torch in the air from the bow of the ship

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 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torch	det
4	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 torch	amod
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 bow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bow	det
11	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 ship	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ship	det
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bow	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	a lit torch				from the bow of the ship; in the air	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent torch=Patient in air=Theme

Option 4

He waved a lit torch in the air and then ordered the men to row

The tree, 15 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	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torch	det
4	lit	lit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 torch	amod
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ordered	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 ordered	advmod
11	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ordered	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 row	mark
15	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ordered	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	He	a lit torch			in the air	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent torch=Patient in air=Theme
2	order	past	He not said here		the men	then		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	row not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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