Test 12 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche,…

Hold up, who sent the Sphinx to bother the Thebans?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: hold up, send, bother · To what, where: Sphinx, Thebans

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sphinx	det
7	Sphinx	sphinx	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bother	mark
9	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Thebans	det
11	Thebans	Theban	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 bother	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	send	past		the Sphinx	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sphinx=Theme
3	bother	to-infinitive		the Thebans	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus theban=Experiencer

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

Hestia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hestia	Hestia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hera	hera	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Persephone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persephone	persephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Demeter, goddess of the harvest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Demeter	demeter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 goddess	punct
3	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Demeter	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 harvest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 harvest	det
6	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goddess	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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