Test 1 · ★ · Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part 13: Phaethon drives…

Did you read about Helios's couch, like, the one from the sea-nymphs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: read

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 507 «Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part 13: Phaethon drives the sun-chariot and falls into the river Eridanus» 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=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 couch	case
5	Helios	Helios	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 couch	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Helios	case
7	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	12 one	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	parataxis
13	from	from	ADP	_	17 nymphs	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nymphs	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nymphs	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sea	punct
17	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past · do-support	you					about Helios's couch	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about couch=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

Nah, it was Hephaestus, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 Hephaestus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Hephaestus	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Hephaestus	cop
5	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 proper	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Hephaestus	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	Hephaestus					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, the Hours made it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hours	det
4	Hours	Hour	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Hours	it				mate vocative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 3

Nah, that was Zeus, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 Zeus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Zeus	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Zeus	cop
5	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Zeus	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	Zeus and bruv					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the sea-nymphs made it, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nymphs	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nymphs	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sea	punct
6	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the sea nymphs	it					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

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