Test 13 · ★ · Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby…

Mad, what do the Mysteries and the myth actually mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mysteries · What happens: mean

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 mean	obj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Mysteries	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mysteries	det
6	Mysteries	Mystery	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 mean	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mean	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 myth	det
9	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mean	nsubj
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	11 mean	advmod
11	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mad	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	infinitive	the Mysteries					actually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

the change of seasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 change	det
2	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 seasons	case
4	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change		seasons						nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

the yearly change of the seasons, from winter's death to spring's rebirth

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 change	det
2	yearly	yearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 change	amod
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 seasons	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seasons	det
6	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 death	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 death	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 death	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 winter	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 rebirth	case
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rebirth	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 spring	case
15	rebirth	rebirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change		the seasons					to spring's rebirth	nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent to=obl
2	die		winter						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the regular change of the seasons and the cycle of the crops on the land

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 change	det
2	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 change	amod
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 seasons	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seasons	det
6	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cycle	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cycle	det
9	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 crops	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crops	det
12	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crops	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change		the seasons						nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

the seasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 seasons	det
2	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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