Test 4 · ★ · Classical Mythology, Uranus and Gaea, part 2: Uranus hates…

wait, was Oceanus a river or the whole ocean?

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Oceanus	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Oceanus	cop
4	Oceanus	Oceanus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	parataxis
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ocean	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ocean	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ocean	amod
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 river	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		Oceanus					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 salty sea on the far shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sea	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 shore	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shore	amod
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sea	nmod

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

Option 2

a river that flows round the earth and under the sea, the mother of all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 flows	nsubj
4	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 river	acl:relcl
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flows	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sea	cc
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 earth	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mother	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 river	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 mother	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	present	a river and the mother of all					round the earth and the sea	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the deep sea floor under the waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 floor	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floor	compound
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 waves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 waves	det
7	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 floor	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the ocean stream going round the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stream	det
2	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stream	compound
3	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stream	acl
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	the ocean stream not said here			the earth			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial_Location

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