Test 8 · ★ · Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the fie…
What did Medea give Jason to keep him safe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Medea · What happens: give, keep · To what, where: Jason
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 give | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · do-support | Medea | Jason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Medea not said here | Jason | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice
A sleeping draught
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 draught | det |
| 2 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 draught | amod |
| 3 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A magic salve, like a force field for a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 salve | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 salve | amod |
| 3 | salve | salve | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 field | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 7 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 field | compound |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 salve | appos |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 field | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A sharp dagger wrapped in silk for the fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dagger | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dagger | amod |
| 3 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dagger | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 silk | case |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fight | det |
| 9 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | participle | a sharp dagger not said here | silk | for the fight | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in silk=Destination |
Option 4
A woven cloak that hides him from all foes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloak | det |
| 2 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cloak | amod |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 hides | nsubj |
| 5 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cloak | acl:relcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hides | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 foes | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 foes | det |
| 9 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hides | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hide | present | a woven cloak | him = he | all foes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient from foe=Beneficiary |
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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