Test 8 · ★ · Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies,…

mum said the Moirae were old and lame, why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, Moirae · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 523 «Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies, Fates, Nemesis and the cave of Sleep, with their homes and jobs» 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	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Moirae	det
4	Moirae	Moirae	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lame	cc
8	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 why	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 old	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mum		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Moirae	old property	tree rules
3	be		the Moirae not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

the endless toil of fate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toil	det
2	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 toil	amod
3	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fate	case
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 toil	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toil		fate						nom toil «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

weakness of the aged mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 mind	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mind	det
4	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mind	amod
5	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 weakness	nmod

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

Option 3

the slow march of destiny over the centuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 march	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 march	amod
3	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 destiny	case
5	destiny	destiny	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 march	nmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 centuries	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 centuries	det
8	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 march	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the slow march of destiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 march	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 march	amod
3	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 destiny	case
5	destiny	destiny	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 march	nmod

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/523-pg22381-part29/t8/