Test 4 · ★ · Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilt…
ok who gets vultures pecking his liver, lol
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: vultures · What happens: get, peck · To what, where: vultures, liver
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 3 gets | discourse |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | vultures | vulture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gets | obj |
| 5 | pecking | peck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 vultures | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 liver | nmod:poss |
| 7 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pecking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 gets | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | vultures | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vulture=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | peck | gerund | vultures not said here | his liver | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Tityus, for insulting Hera
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tityus | Tityus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hera | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Hera | case |
| 4 | insulting | insulting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hera | amod |
| 5 | Hera | Hera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tityus | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Prometheus, chained for stealing fire from Zeus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prometheus | prometheus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chained | punct |
| 3 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Prometheus | acl |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 stealing | mark |
| 5 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 chained | advcl |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stealing | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Zeus | case |
| 8 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stealing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chain | participle | Prometheus not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | steal | gerund | fire | Zeus | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from zeus=Source |
Option 3
Prometheus, for stealing fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prometheus | prometheus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stealing | punct |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 stealing | mark |
| 4 | stealing | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Prometheus | appos |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stealing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | gerund | fire | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Theme |
Option 4
Tantalus, for killing his son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tantalus | Tantalus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tantalus | punct |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 killing | mark |
| 4 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Tantalus | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | gerund | Tantalus not said here | Tantalus's son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
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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