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title: how'd theseus feel when the horn grazed him? — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8… · tree and pragmatics
description: how'd theseus feel when the horn grazed him? Test 9 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

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how'd theseus feel when the horn grazed him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 'd theseus, horn · **What happens:** feel, graze · **To what, where:** theseus

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This is test 9 · ★ 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. 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t9:1
# text = how'd theseus feel when the horn grazed him?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	theseus	theseus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | infinitive | 'd theseus |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **graze** | past | the horn | theseus |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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knocked flat, then up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t9:o1:1
# text = knocked flat, then up
1	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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stunned, then got back up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t9:o2:1
# text = stunned, then got back up
1	stunned	stun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stun** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **get back** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
knocked flat on his back, then up again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t9:o3:1
# text = knocked flat on his back, then up again
1	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock up** | participle |  |  |  | his back |  | flat *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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he dodged away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t9:o4:1
# text = he dodged away
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dodged	dodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dodge away** | past | he |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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**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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