Test 5 · ★ · Greek Myths, Apollo, part 15: Apollo founds Delphi and his…

Lowkey, why did Marpessa pick Idas over Apollo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marpessa · What happens: pick · To what, where: Idas, Apollo

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 pick	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pick	aux
5	Marpessa	Marpessa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pick	nsubj
6	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Idas	Idas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 Apollo	case
9	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past · do-support	Marpessa	Idas		Apollo		Lowkey vocative	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idas=Patient

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

He'd make her a queen one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	He	a queen	her = she		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary queen=Product

Option 2

He was handsome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 handsome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 handsome	cop
3	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					handsome property	tree rules

Option 3

He promised her a golden home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 home	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 home	amod
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	He	a golden home	her = she				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal home=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He'd still be around when she got old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 around	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 around	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 around	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 around	cop
5	around	around	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He				still	around property	tree rules
2	get	past	she					old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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