Test 8 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus lo…

yo why did the Greeks think Delphi was the middle of the world?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo, Greeks, Delphi · What happens: do, think, be · To what, where: middle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 511 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus loses Eurydice twice, then dies, and Apollo's worship is described» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 yo	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Greeks	det
5	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 middle	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 middle	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middle	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present	the Greeks			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Delphi	the middle	of the world	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

Zeus released two eagles that met over the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 released	nsubj
2	released	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eagles	nummod
4	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 released	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 met	nsubj
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eagles	acl:relcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 stone	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	past	Zeus	two eagles					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer eagle=Source
2	meet	past	two eagles			the stone			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the Muses sang there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Muses	det
2	Muses	muse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the Muses			there			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the sacred snake appeared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snake	det
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snake	amod
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the sacred snake						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

two eagles from Zeus met there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 eagles	nummod
2	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 met	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Zeus	case
4	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eagles	nmod
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 met	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	two eagles from Zeus			there			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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