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

Did Pollux really turn down being immortal, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pollux · What happens: turn down, be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
2	Pollux	Pollux	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 turn	compound:prt
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 immortal	cop
7	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	4 turn	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn down	past · do-support	Pollux						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	Pollux not said here					immortal property	tree rules

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'd only do it if Castor joined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 joined	mark
9	Castor	Castor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 joined	nsubj
10	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	he	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	join a condition, not said to happen	past	Castor						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nah, he just said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 3

Yeah, proper, he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 proper	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he					properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he'd only take it if Castor came too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	Castor	Castor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	advcl
11	too	too	ADV	_	10 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	he	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past	Castor						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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