Test 10 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of…

Wait, why did Themis bail on earth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: Themis bail, earth

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 498 «Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of Man, part 4: the brothers share the world, the giants and Typhon are beaten, and a flood drowns the wicked race» 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 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	Themis	Themis	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bail	compound
6	bail	bail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 earth	case
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
9	?	?	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	do	past	you not said here	Themis bail		earth			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bail=Eventuality

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

Men grew proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Men					proud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People got evil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	People					evil property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Too hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 hot	advmod
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Zeus's orders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 orders	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Zeus	case
3	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order		Zeus						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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