Test 8 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Pallas-Athene, part 9: Athene's…

Ngl, what happened to the olive tree when the Persians burnt it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: happen, burnt · To what, where: tree

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 503 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Pallas-Athene, part 9: Athene's gifts and her shield» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 burnt	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ngl	acl:relcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 burnt	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Persians	det
11	Persians	Persian	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 burnt	nsubj
12	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 burnt	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 burnt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Ngl					to the olive tree	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burnt	past	Ngl	tree					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

It burned down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 burned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn down	past	It						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It withered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 withered	nsubj
2	withered	wither	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	wither	past	It						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It rotted at the roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rotted	nsubj
2	rotted	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 roots	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roots	det
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rotted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	past	It			the roots			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It burst into new shoots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 shoots	case
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoots	amod
5	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 burst	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	past	It			new shoots			vn appear-48.1.1 «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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