Test 10 · ★ · Classical Mythology, Uranus and Gaea, part 2: Uranus hates…

was Nyx the night or the day, be honest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nyx · What happens: be · To what, where: Nyx

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 496 «Classical Mythology, Uranus and Gaea, part 2: Uranus hates his fierce children, the Giants.» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Nyx	cop
2	Nyx	Nyx	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 honest	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Nyx	appos
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 day	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nyx	punct
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 honest	cop
10	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Nyx					tree rules
2	is	infinitive	Nyx					honest property	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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the night, the mother of Sleep and Death both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Sleep	case
7	Sleep	Sleep	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mother	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Death	cc
9	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sleep	conj
10	both	both	ADV	_	2 night	advmod

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

Option 2

the goddess of the bright light of the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goddess	det
2	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goddess	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light			the day					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

the dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dawn	det
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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