--- title: Was the king kinda cringe to the poor victims? — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the king kinda cringe to the poor victims? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2047-pg976-part6/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2047-pg976-part6/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C… Was the king kinda cringe to the poor victims? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** king This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2047-pg976-part6/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t6:1 # text = Was the king kinda cringe to the poor victims? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 csubj _ _ 4 kinda kinda ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 cringe cringe NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 victims victim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the king | | | | | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} he poked them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t6:o1:1 # text = he poked them 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 poked poke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **poke** | past | he | them *= they* | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} he fed them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t6:o2:1 # text = he fed them 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | past | he | them *= they* | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ### Option 3 {#o3} he fled ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t6:o3:1 # text = he fled 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flee** | past | he | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} he praised them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t6:o4:1 # text = he praised them 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 praised praise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **praise** | past | he | them *= they* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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. 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