Test 12 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus…

bruh the hourglass and scythe, what do they mean

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hourglass · What happens: mean · To what, where: hourglass

This is test 12 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 hourglass	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hourglass	det
3	hourglass	hourglass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 scythe	cc
5	scythe	scythe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hourglass	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mean	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 mean	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mean	aux
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mean	nsubj
10	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hourglass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	hourglass	the hourglass and scythe					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Time flying by and time cutting everything down like a farmer's harvest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Time	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 time	cc
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flying	obl
6	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 flying	advcl
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 cutting	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 cutting	compound:prt
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 harvest	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 farmer	det
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 harvest	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 farmer	case
13	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cutting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund	Time not said here				time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut down	gerund	Time not said here	everything				like a farmer's harvest	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product

Option 2

The passing of time and the cutting down of all mortal life by the gods

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 passing	det
2	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gods	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gods	det
7	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 gods	csubj
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 cutting	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 life	det
11	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 life	amod
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 down	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 gods	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gods	det
15	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	gerund						down property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	pass			time					nom passing «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

time flying and time cutting everything down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 time	acl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 time	cc
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flying	conj
5	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 flying	conj
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 cutting	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 cutting	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund	time not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut down	gerund	time not said here	everything					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product

Option 4

Time passing and death ending life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Time	acl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 life	cc
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ending	compound
5	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 life	compound
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	Time not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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