Test 8 · ★ · Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby…

Bro, who did Zeus send first to try and sort her out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: send, try, sort out · To what, where: Zeus

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 send	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 send	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 send	aux
5	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 send	nsubj
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	conj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 send	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 try	mark
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 send	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sort	cc
11	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 try	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sort	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 sort	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past · do-support	Bro		first property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	try	to-infinitive	Bro not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	sort out	infinitive	Bro not said here	Zeus		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

Iris and the other gods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iris	Iris	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gods	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gods	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gods	amod
5	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Iris	conj

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

Option 2

Iris and the other gods of the sky, who went down to beg her to return

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iris	Iris	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gods	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gods	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gods	amod
5	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Iris	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gods	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 beg	mark
14	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 beg	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 return	mark
17	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 beg	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go down	past	Iris and the other gods of the sky		down property	tree rules
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	Iris and the other gods of the sky not said here	her = she		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	Iris and the other gods of the sky not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Athena and the gods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Athena	athena	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 gods	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gods	det
4	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Athena	conj

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

Option 4

Iris and the other gods, who flew down from Olympus to plead with her

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iris	Iris	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 flew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gods	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gods	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gods	amod
5	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Iris	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 Olympus	case
11	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 plead	mark
13	plead	plead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 flew	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 plead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly down	past	Iris and the other gods			Olympus		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from olympus=Trajectory
2	plead speech: request	to-infinitive	Iris and the other gods not said here					with Olympus	tree rules

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