Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead,…

wait, who's the dude with the snake-heads dog guarding the gate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, heads dog · What happens: wait, be, guard · To what, where: dude, gate

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 521 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead, part 27: Midas's gold river, then Dionysus and Aides» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dude	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dude	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dude	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	12 dog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
9	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heads	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 snake	punct
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dog	compound
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dude	nmod
13	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 dog	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guarding	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the dude	with the heads dog	tree rules
3	guard	gerund	the heads dog not said here	the gate		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

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

Pegasus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pegasus	pegasus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the three-headed dog Cerberus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 headed	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 three	punct
4	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dog	appos

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

Option 3

Chimera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chimera	chimera	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cerberus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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