Test 9 · ★ · Greek Myths, Demeter and Persephone: Demeter nurses a baby…

Wait, why did Hermes go down to the underworld, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Hermes · What happens: wait, go down

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 underworld	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 underworld	det
10	underworld	underworld	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 underworld	conj
13	?	?	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	go down	past · do-support	Hermes					to the underworld and mate; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

to ask Aides to free Persephone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Aides	aide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 free	mark
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Persephone	amod
6	Persephone	persephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		Aides					tree rules

Option 2

to ask Aides to free Persephone so the earth could bloom again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Aides	aide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 free	mark
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Persephone	amod
6	Persephone	persephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 bloom	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earth	det
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bloom	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 bloom	aux
11	bloom	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	advcl
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 bloom	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		Aides					tree rules
2	bloom	could	the earth				again		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

to bring back Persephone home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 bring	mark
2	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 bring	advmod
4	Persephone	persephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bring	obj
5	home	home	ADV	_	2 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	to-infinitive		Persephone				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent persephone=Theme

Option 4

to ask Aides to let Persephone go back up to the upper world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Aides	aide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	xcomp
6	Persephone	persephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	up	up	ADP	_	13 world	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
12	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 world	amod
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		Aides		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent aide=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	Aides not said here	Persephone		tree rules
3	go back	infinitive	Persephone not said here		up the upper world	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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