Test 4 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche,…

Was the Sphinx a mega riddler, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sphinx · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: mega riddler

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 riddler	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 riddler	det
3	Sphinx	Sphinx	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 riddler	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 riddler	det
5	mega	mega	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 riddler	compound
6	riddler	riddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 riddler	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 riddler	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sphinx	the mega riddler					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

Nope, just one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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

Yeah, she gave one riddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 riddle	nummod
6	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	one riddle					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme

Option 3

Nah, no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Nah	discourse

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

Option 4

Nah, she gave two riddles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 riddles	nummod
6	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	two riddles					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=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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