Test 10 · ★ · Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his…

Dude, what was Gaea's oracle actually for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: oracle

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 509 «Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his love affairs go wrong» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 oracle	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 oracle	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 oracle	cop
5	Gaea	Gaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 oracle	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Gaea	case
7	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 for	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	7 oracle	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	Gaea's oracle					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

Keeping the sacred flame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flame	det
3	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flame	amod
4	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		the sacred flame					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme

Option 2

Healing the sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sick	det
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Healing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	gerund		the sick					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sick=Patient

Option 3

Guarding the gods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gods	det
3	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	gerund			the gods				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Telling the future to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 future	det
3	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		the future	people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent future=Topic to people=Recipient

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