Test 11 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche,…

Mint, where was the Sphinx parked up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, park up · To what, where: Sphinx

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 524 «Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche, part 30: Medusa's curse, Perseus, the Sphinx's riddle and Fortune's wheel» 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	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Sphinx	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 Sphinx	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Sphinx	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sphinx	det
6	Sphinx	sphinx	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mint	appos
7	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Sphinx	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 parked	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Sphinx					tree rules
2	park up	participle		the Sphinx not said here					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

a hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cave	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a rock by Delphi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 Delphi	case
4	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rock	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a rock near Thebes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	4 Thebes	case
4	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rock	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.

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