Test 2 · ★ · Greek Myths, Hephaestus and Poseidon, part 21: Aphrodite m…

Mate, why did Aphrodite keep laughing at her hubby's wobbly walk?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Aphrodite, Mate, hubby · What happens: keep, laugh, walk · To what, where: Mate, wobbly walk

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 515 «Greek Myths, Hephaestus and Poseidon, part 21: Aphrodite mocks her limping husband, and Poseidon's golden sea-palace 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	Aphrodite	Aphrodite	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	13 walk	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hubby	nmod:poss
10	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 hubby	case
12	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 walk	amod
13	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Aphrodite	Mate		tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	Mate not said here		Aphrodite's hubby's wobbly walk	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk		Aphrodite's hubby			nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Cos she was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 bored	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Cos he was pouring wine all wrong, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 pouring	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pouring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pouring	aux
4	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pouring	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 wrong	advmod
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mate	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrong	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pouring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past · progressive	he	wine					vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent wine=Theme mate=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos she was well up for Ares, not him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 well	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 well	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 well	aux:pass
4	well	well	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 well	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Ares	case
7	Ares	ar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 well	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 him	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 him	advmod
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 well	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	well up	past · passive		she				for Ares; him = he obl	tree rules

Option 4

Dunno, just did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dunno	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	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	do	past	Dunno						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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