Test 10 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus…
did Zeus win or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zeus · What happens: win
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 win | aux |
| 2 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 win | nsubj |
| 3 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 nah | cc |
| 5 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 win | discourse |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 win | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past · do-support | Zeus | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Yeah, he overthrew Cronus and took the throne of the gods for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 overthrew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 overthrew | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 overthrew | nsubj |
| 4 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Cronus | Cronus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 overthrew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overthrew | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gods | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gods | det |
| 12 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 throne | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 good | case |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overthrow | past | he | Cronus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | he not said here | the throne of the gods | for good | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent throne=Theme for good=Beneficiary |
Option 2
Yeah, he seized Cronus' crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 seized | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Cronus | Cronus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 crown | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 Cronus | case |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | he | Cronus's crown | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crown | Cronus | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he took the throne from Cronus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 throne | det |
| 6 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Cronus | case |
| 8 | Cronus | Cronus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | he | the throne | Cronus | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent throne=Theme from cronus=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Yep, he defeated Cronus at last
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 defeated | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 defeated | nsubj |
| 4 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Cronus | Cronus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 defeated | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 last | case |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 defeated | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | past | he | Cronus | last | tree rules |
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