Test 8 · ★ · Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part 13: Phaethon drives…

What was up with his sisters crying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cry

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 crying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crying	aux
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sisters	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sisters	nmod:poss
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
7	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They went to school, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 school	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They			school and mate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They turned into poplars, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 poplars	case
4	poplars	poplar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poplars	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They			poplars and innit			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into poplar=Trajectory

Option 3

They sailed away, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 sailed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 proper	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sailed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail away	past	They					away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They got married, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 married	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	aux:pass
3	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 married	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		They					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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