Test 10 · ★ · Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilt…

wait, is Tartarus as deep under Hades as the sky is up??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sky · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Tartarus

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 522 «Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilty are judged and punished in Tartarus» 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	_	4 Tartarus	punct
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Tartarus	cop
4	Tartarus	Tartarus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 Hades	case
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Hades	amod
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 Hades	case
8	Hades	Hade	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 Tartarus	nmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 up	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 up	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 up	cop
13	up	up	ADV	_	1 wait	advcl
14	??	??	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		Tartarus	as deep Hades	tree rules
3	is	present	the sky		up property	tree rules

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

Yeah, the depth matches the height of heaven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 matches	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 matches	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 depth	det
4	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matches	nsubj
5	matches	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 height	det
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matches	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 heaven	case
9	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 height	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	present	the depth	the height of heaven					vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, Tartarus is as deep below Hades as Olympus is high above earth, and walled with bronze

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 deep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	Tartarus	Tartarus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 deep	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deep	cop
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 deep	case
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	below	below	ADV	_	8 Hades	advmod
8	Hades	Hade	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 deep	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 high	mark
10	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 high	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 high	cop
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deep	advcl
13	above	above	ADP	_	14 earth	case
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 high	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 walled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 walled	cc
17	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 deep	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 bronze	case
19	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tartarus		Hades obl; deep property	tree rules
2	is	present	Olympus	earth	high property	tree rules
3	wall	participle	Tartarus not said here		with bronze	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, twice as far down as heaven is up, and then more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 down	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 down	punct
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 down	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 down	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 up	mark
8	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 up	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 up	cop
10	up	up	ADV	_	6 down	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 down	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 more	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 down	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	heaven					up property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, as far down as earth is from the skies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 down	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 down	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	11 skies	case
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skies	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 skies	cop
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 skies	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 skies	det
11	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 down	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	earth					as the skies	tree rules

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