Test 1 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus…

ok so wait, why did Cronus eat his own kids?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Cronus · What happens: wait, eat · To what, where: own kids

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 497 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus swallows his children, and Rhea saves Zeus with a stone» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	3 wait	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 wait	advmod
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 eat	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
7	Cronus	Cronus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wait	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 kids	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kids	amod
11	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 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	eat	past · do-support	Cronus	Cronus's own kids					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=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 · ← Mova's choice

Bc he hated kids so much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bc	Bc	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hated	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hated	nsubj
3	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hated	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	3 hated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	Bc	kids					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus

Option 2

Cuz an oracle said one of them would take his power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 oracle	det
3	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 take	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nmod
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 power	nmod:poss
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cuz						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	would	one of them	oracle's power					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause he was scared one would take his throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 throne	nmod:poss
9	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cause					scared property	tree rules
2	take	would	one	his throne					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme

Option 4

Bc Rhea kept having babies and he wanted to stop them from ever growing up and fighting him

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bc	Bc	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
2	Rhea	Rhea	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bc	flat
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 having	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stop	obj
12	from	from	SCONJ	_	14 growing	mark
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 growing	compound
14	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stop	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 growing	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fighting	cc
17	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 growing	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fighting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	Bc		tree rules
2	have	gerund	Bc not said here	babies	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
3	want	past	Bc		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bc not said here	babies = baby	tree rules
5	grow up	gerund	Bc not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fight	gerund	Bc not said here	Bc	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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