Test 9 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief,…

Ay, why was Marsyas flayed, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Marsyas · What happens: be, flay · To what, where: Marsyas

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	6 flayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flayed	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 flayed	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Marsyas	cop
5	Marsyas	Marsyas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flayed	nsubj
6	flayed	flay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 though	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 flayed	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 flayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Marsyas					tree rules
2	flay	past	Marsyas						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 · ✓ the right answer

He lost the music battle, proper unlucky

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 battle	det
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 battle	compound
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 battle	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 unlucky	amod
8	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lost	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	the music battle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He lost the music battle to Apollo, proper unlucky, innit, and was flayed alive

The tree, 14 words

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 battle	det
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 battle	compound
5	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Apollo	case
7	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unlucky	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 unlucky	amod
10	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Apollo	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Apollo	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flayed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flayed	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flayed	aux:pass
16	flayed	flay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lost	parataxis
17	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	the music battle	Apollo		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive	He not said here				tree rules
3	flay	past · passive				alive property	tree rules

Option 3

He lost the pipes game, dead unlucky

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 game	compound
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 unlucky	amod
8	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lost	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	the pipes game					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

Option 4

He lost the battle of the pipes, which was proper unlucky, and then he got skinned

The tree, 16 words

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 battle	det
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pipes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pipes	det
7	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 battle	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 unlucky	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 unlucky	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 unlucky	cop
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 unlucky	advmod
12	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pipes	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 got	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 got	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
18	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	the battle of the pipes			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
2	is	past	the pipes			properly, unlucky property	tree rules
3	get	past	he		then	skinned property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	battle			the pipes			nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient

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