Test 11 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief,…

Wait, how did everyone find out Midas's secret?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, everyone · What happens: wait, find out · To what, where: secret

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 510 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief, his son's death, and his punishments» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 find	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 find	compound:prt
8	Midas	Midas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 secret	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Midas	case
10	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find out	past · do-support	everyone	Midas's secret					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Reeds kept whispering it, bare embarrassing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whispering	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 whispering	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp
7	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Reeds					bare, embarrassing property	tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	gerund	Reeds not said here	it					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Servants kept blabbing it, proper awkward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blabbing	blab	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blabbing	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp
7	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proper	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Servants					proper property	tree rules
2	blab speech: other	gerund	Servants not said here	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Reeds kept whispering it to everyone who walked by the river, bare embarrassing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whispering	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 whispering	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 whispering	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 walked	nsubj
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everyone	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct
13	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 embarrassing	amod
14	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Reeds				tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	gerund	Reeds not said here	it	everyone		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to everyone=Recipient
3	walk	past				by the river	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory

Option 4

Reeds kept whispering it, dead awkward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whispering	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 whispering	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp
7	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Reeds					awkward, dead property	tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	gerund	Reeds not said here	it					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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