Test 5 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Midas and the gods of the dead,…
lol who even pays the boatman with a coin under their tongue?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: pay · To what, where: boatman, tongue
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 pays | discourse |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 pays | nsubj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 pays | advmod |
| 4 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boatman | det |
| 6 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pays | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 coin | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coin | det |
| 9 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pays | obl |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 tongue | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pays | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 pays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | the boatman | their tongue | with a coin | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boatman=Asset |
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 old ferryman Charon of the Styx
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ferryman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ferryman | amod |
| 3 | ferryman | ferryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Charon | Charon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ferryman | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Styx | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Styx | det |
| 7 | Styx | Styx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Charon | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Pan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Hermes, guide of the dead souls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hermes | Hermes | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 guide | punct |
| 3 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hermes | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 souls | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 souls | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 souls | amod |
| 7 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 guide | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Charon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charon | charon | NOUN | 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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