Test 14 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Thetis and Ares, part 23: Thetis…

so the salii were basically dancing priests in armour?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: salii · What happens: dance · To what, where: priests, armour

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 517 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Thetis and Ares, part 23: Thetis weds Peleus, then the war-god Ares is hated by his father» 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 dancing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 salii	det
3	salii	salii	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dancing	aux
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 dancing	advmod
6	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dancing	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 armour	case
9	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dancing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	the salii	priests		armour		basically property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location priest=Theme

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

yeah, twelve of them, boss sacred dances in full kit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 twelve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 twelve	punct
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 boss	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twelve	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boss	punct
7	boss	boss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dances	amod
9	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 boss	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 kit	case
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kit	amod
12	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boss	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boss	infinitive	twelve of them	sacred dances		full kit			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they were priests who wore togas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 priests	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 priests	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 priests	cop
5	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wore	nsubj
7	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 priests	acl:relcl
8	togas	toga	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	priests					tree rules
2	wear	past	priests	togas					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent toga=Source

Option 3

yeah, six of them, sang hymns in old robes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 six	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sang	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 six	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sang	punct
7	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sang	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 robes	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 robes	amod
11	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past		six of them		old robes			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme

Option 4

yeah, bit of a laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bit	punct
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 laugh	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 laugh	det
6	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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