Test 9 · ★ · The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone…

What did folks in Athens reckon Theseus would be?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: folks, Theseus · What happens: do, reckon, be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2044 «The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone, finds his father's sword and sandals, and sets out for Athens» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reckon	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Athens	case
5	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 folks	nmod
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
7	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 be	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reckon	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	folks in Athens	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	would	Theseus	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

As mighty as the gods in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 mighty	advmod
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 gods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gods	det
5	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mighty	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gods	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A legend who'd outshine every hero from the old stories put together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 legend	det
2	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	nsubj:outer
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 outshine	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 outshine	aux
5	outshine	outshine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 legend	acl:relcl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hero	det
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outshine	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 stories	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stories	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stories	amod
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 outshine	obl
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outshine	would	a legend	every hero		the old stories			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hero=Theme
2	put together	participle	a legend					together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

As sick a hero as Hercules and Jason and all the rest of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 hero	case
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hero	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 Hercules	case
6	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hero	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Jason	cc
8	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hercules	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rest	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 rest	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hero	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rest	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

As sick a hero as Hercules and Jason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 hero	case
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hero	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 Hercules	case
6	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hero	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Jason	cc
8	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hercules	conj

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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