Test 10 · ★ · Greek Myths, Zeus and His Loves, part 7: Zeus wins many mo…

Bro, why did Lycaon give Zeus a dish of human meat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lycaon · What happens: give · To what, where: dish, Zeus

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 501 «Greek Myths, Zeus and His Loves, part 7: Zeus wins many mortal women in disguise, and Lycaon plots to test him» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 give	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	Lycaon	Lycaon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dish	det
9	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 meat	case
11	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meat	amod
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dish	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Lycaon	a dish of human meat	Zeus			Bro vocative	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent zeus=Recipient dish=Theme

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

To trick Zeus into eating human flesh so the gods would be punished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 trick	obj
4	into	into	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 trick	advcl
6	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flesh	amod
7	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 punished	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gods	det
10	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 punished	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 punished	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 punished	aux:pass
13	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 eating	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive	Zeus	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zeus=Patient
2	eat	gerund	human flesh	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient
3	punish	would · passive	the gods	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To test if Zeus was really a god

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 god	mark
4	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 god	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 god	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 god	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 god	det
8	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	Zeus	a god					tree rules

Option 3

To see if Zeus could tell human flesh from animal meat, as a cruel trick

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 tell	mark
4	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	ccomp
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flesh	amod
8	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 meat	case
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meat	compound
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trick	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 trick	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 trick	det
15	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trick	amod
16	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive						as a cruel trick	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	could	Zeus	human flesh		animal meat			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flesh=Recipient

Option 4

To see if he would notice the meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 notice	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 notice	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 notice	aux
6	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meat	det
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	notice a condition, not said to happen	would	he	the meat					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus

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