Test 9 · ★ · Greek Myths, Helios and Phaethon, part 13: Phaethon drives…
And Cycnus, was he just some random dude?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cycnus · What happens: be · To what, where: random dude
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 Cycnus | cc |
| 2 | Cycnus | Cycnus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dude | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cycnus | punct |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dude | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dude | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 dude | advmod |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 dude | det |
| 8 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dude | amod |
| 9 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 dude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Cycnus | some random dude | tree rules |
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
Yeah, he was a river god, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 god | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 god | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 god | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 god | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 god | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 god | compound |
| 7 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 god | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a river god and innit | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, he was Helios's servant, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 servant | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 servant | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 servant | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 servant | cop |
| 5 | Helios | Helios | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 servant | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Helios | case |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bruv | punct |
| 9 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 servant | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | Helios's servant and bruv | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, he was Aetes's brother, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 brother | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brother | cop |
| 5 | Aetes | Aetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Aetes | case |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brother | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | Aetes's brother and mate | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he was Phaethon's best mate, bare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mate | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mate | cop |
| 5 | Phaethon | Phaethon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mate | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Phaethon | case |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 mate | amod |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bare | punct |
| 10 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mate | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | Phaethon's best mate | tree rules |
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