Test 11 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10:…

wait, did Zeus actually sign off on the grab?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Zeus · What happens: wait, sign off · To what, where: grab

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 504 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10: Demeter, grief-stricken, searches for her stolen daughter and learns that Zeus allowed it.» 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	_	6 sign	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sign	aux
4	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sign	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 sign	advmod
6	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 sign	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 grab	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grab	det
10	grab	grab	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sign	obl
11	?	?	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	sign off	past · do-support	Zeus			the grab		actually property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grab=Destination

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

No, he refused it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 refused	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he	it					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he allowed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 allowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 allowed	nsubj
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 allowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	past	he	it					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

Option 3

Yes, he sent Hermes to guide her down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 guide	mark
7	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 guide	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 guide	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	Hermes					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermes=Theme
2	guide down	to-infinitive	he not said here	Hermes					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he let it happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	he	it					tree rules
2	happen	infinitive							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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