Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the d…

what did Eos turn poor old Tithonus into in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eos · What happens: turn · To what, where: poor old Tithonus, end

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 508 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the dawn goddess loses her lover to old age, and Apollo is born on Delos» 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	4 turn	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	Eos	Eos	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Tithonus	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Tithonus	amod
7	Tithonus	Tithonus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 end	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · do-support	Eos	poor old Tithonus			into the end		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent what=Theme tithonus=Result

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

a tortoise, all shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shell	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 shell	det
5	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tortoise	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a grasshopper that only chirped all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grasshopper	det
2	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 chirped	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 chirped	advmod
5	chirped	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grasshopper	acl:relcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chirped	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 chirped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chirp	past		a grasshopper			day	long property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme

Option 3

an insect that chirped and chirped in the fields of Troy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 insect	det
2	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chirped	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 chirped	nsubj
4	chirped	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chirped	cc
6	chirped	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chirped	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 fields	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chirped	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Troy	case
11	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fields	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chirp	past	a insect						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chirp	past	a insect not said here			the fields of Troy			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a grasshopper, all chirp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grasshopper	det
2	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chirp	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 grasshopper	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 chirp	advmod
5	chirp	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chirp	present	a grasshopper						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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