--- title: Which signal did King Aegeus request to be displayed upon a victorio… — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8… · tree and pragmatics description: Which signal did King Aegeus request to be displayed upon a victorious return? Exam question 3 of lesson 2049 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the Minotaur, follows Ariadne's thread out, and sails away with the captives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2049-pg976-part8/e3/) [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 8…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2049-pg976-part8/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the… Which signal did King Aegeus request to be displayed upon a victorious return? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** signal · **What happens:** do, display · **To what, where:** Aegeus request This is exam question 3 of lesson 2049 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the Minotaur, follows Ariadne's thread out, and sails away with the captives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/2049-pg976-part8/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e3:1 # text = Which signal did King Aegeus request to be displayed upon a victorious return? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Aegeus Aegeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 displayed display VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 victorious victorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which signal | Aegeus request | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality | | 2 | **display** | to-infinitive · passive | which signal *not said here* | | | | | upon a victorious return | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP» | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} red flags ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e3:o1:1 # text = red flags 1 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 flags flag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} bright yellow sails flying from the mast ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e3:o2:1 # text = bright yellow sails flying from the mast 1 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sails sail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | gerund | bright yellow sails *not said here* | | | the mast | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mast=Trajectory | ### Option 3 {#o3} white flags high ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e3:o3:1 # text = white flags high 1 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 flags flag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} sunshiny sails ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:e3:o4:1 # text = sunshiny sails 1 sunshiny sunshiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sails sail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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