Test 10 · ★ · Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby…

Did Aides let Persephone go for good, or was there a catch?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aides, Persephone, catch · What happens: let, go, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 505 «Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby, is interrupted, and the seasons begin» 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
2	Aides	aide	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Persephone	persephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 good	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 there	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 catch	det
13	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 there	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	Aides		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Persephone	for good	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary
3	is	past	a catch	there 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 · ✓ the right answer

she had to go back for six months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 months	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						tree rules
2	go back	to-infinitive	she not said here				month		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 2

no, she stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	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	stay	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

she only came up in spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 came	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 spring	case
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	she				spring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she had to return each winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 return	mark
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 winter	det
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						tree rules
2	return	to-infinitive	she not said here				winter		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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