Test 5 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche,…

Mate, what did Oedipus say the riddle answer was?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oedipus · What happens: say, be · To what, where: riddle answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Oedipus	Oedipus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 answer	det
8	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answer	compound
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Oedipus	the riddle answer				Mate vocative	tree rules
2	be	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Man, obviously, since he walks on two legs as a grown adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Man	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Man	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 walks	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 walks	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walks	nsubj
7	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Man	advcl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 legs	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 legs	nummod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walks	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 adult	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 adult	amod
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Man			two legs		as a grown adult	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Man, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Man	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Man	advmod

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

Option 3

A horse, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 horse	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	a horse						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Man, obviously, the creature that crawls, walks and then leans on a stick

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Man	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Man	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 creature	det
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Man	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 crawls	nsubj
8	crawls	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 creature	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walks	punct
10	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crawls	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leans	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 leans	advmod
13	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crawls	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 stick	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stick	det
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leans	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	crawl	present	the creature			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	present	the creature not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lean	present	the creature not said here	a stick	then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location

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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