Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…

which giants ate Ulysses's crew, lowkey?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giants · What happens: eat · To what, where: crew

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2061 «Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the five dragon-born warriors to build a city, finds a magic palace, and meets Harmonia» 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 giants	det
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 crew	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Ulysses	case
6	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lowkey	punct
8	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crew	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	which giants	Ulysses's crew and lowkey					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Patient

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

the sirens of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sirens	det
2	sirens	siren	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sirens	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the giants of Crete who guarded the harbour at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giants	det
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 guarded	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Crete	case
4	Crete	Crete	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 giants	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 guarded	nsubj
6	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 harbour	det
8	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guarded	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guarded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	the giants of Crete	the harbour			night		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbour=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the giants of Laestrygonia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giants	det
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Laestrygonia	case
4	Laestrygonia	Laestrygonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 giants	nmod

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

Option 4

the giants of Laestrygonia who lived on the cliffs above the harbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giants	det
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Laestrygonia	case
4	Laestrygonia	Laestrygonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 giants	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 cliffs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cliffs	det
9	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
10	above	above	ADP	_	12 harbour	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 harbour	det
12	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the giants of Laestrygonia			the cliffs		above the harbour	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cliff=Location

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