Test 9 · ★ · Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes ste…
bro, how old was Hermes when he started the stealing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be, start · To what, where: old Hermes, stealing
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 518 «Gods of Greece and Rome, Hermes the Thief: baby Hermes steals oxen and turns a greedy shepherd to stone» 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hermes | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 old | advmod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Hermes | amod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Hermes | cop |
| 6 | Hermes | Hermes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 bro | nmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 started | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 started | nsubj |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stealing | det |
| 11 | stealing | stealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 started | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | old Hermes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start | past | bro | the stealing | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stealing=Eventuality |
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
only a year old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 year | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 old | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
not even hours old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 hours | advmod |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 hours | advmod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 old | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
about three days old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 three | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 old | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
still a baby in his cradle, a few weeks old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 baby | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 baby | det |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cradle | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 baby | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 baby | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 weeks | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weeks | amod |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 old | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 baby | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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