Test 4 · ★ · Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part 13: Phaethon drives…
Yo, did Phaethon actually get to drive the sun chariot?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, get, drive · To what, where: Phaethon, sun chariot
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Phaethon | Phaethon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drive | mark |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chariot | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chariot | compound |
| 11 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Phaethon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phaethon=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | present | actually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | the sun chariot | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme chariot=Trajectory |
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
Nah, Zeus drove it, dead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 drove | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drove | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drove | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | Zeus | it | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
Option 2
Nope, Helios drove it, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 7 innit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | Helios | helio | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nope | acl:relcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drove | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | Helios | it | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | innit | imperative | you not said here | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, for like one day, bare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 day | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bare | punct |
| 8 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, he got grounded, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 grounded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grounded | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grounded | aux:pass |
| 5 | grounded | ground | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grounded | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grounded | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ground | past · passive | he | mate vocative | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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