Test 8 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Thetis and Ares, part 23: Thetis…
do sirens look like mermaids then?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sirens · What happens: look
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 2 | sirens | siren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 mermaids | case |
| 5 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 look | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · do-support | sirens | then | like mermaids | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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
yeah, top half fish, bottom half girl with fins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fish | punct |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fish | amod |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 fish | compound |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girl | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bottom | punct |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | conj |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 girl | compound |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fins | case |
| 11 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 girl | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, top half girl, bottom half fish with fins and scales, and they swim fast
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 girl | compound |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fish | punct |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fish | amod |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 fish | compound |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fins | case |
| 11 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fish | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 scales | cc |
| 13 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fins | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swim | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swim | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swim | nsubj |
| 17 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 girl | conj |
| 18 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 swim | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | present | scales = scale | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
nah, top half girl, bottom half a seabird with wings and claws and feathers all over
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 girl | compound |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bottom | punct |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | conj |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 seabird | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seabird | det |
| 10 | seabird | seabird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wings | case |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seabird | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 claws | cc |
| 14 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wings | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feathers | cc |
| 16 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wings | conj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 over | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 girl | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, top half girl, bottom half a seabird with wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 10 seabird | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 girl | compound |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seabird | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bottom | punct |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | conj |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 seabird | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seabird | det |
| 10 | seabird | seabird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wings | case |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seabird | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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