Test 5 · ★ · Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part 13: Phaethon drives…

Was it sick when the horses went mad?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, horses · What happens: be, go

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sick	nsubj
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 went	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	conj
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 went	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					sick property	tree rules
2	go	past	the horses					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Proper, they nearly set the earth on fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 fire	case
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	they	the earth		fire		nearly, properly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme on fire=Destination

Option 2

Nah, it was boring, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					bruv vocative; boring property	tree rules

Option 3

Nope, the horses were calm, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 calm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 calm	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 calm	cop
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calm	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the horses					mate vocative; calm property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the horses just walked, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walked	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 walked	advmod
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 walked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the horses						tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the horses not said here						tree rules

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