Test 6 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, Gorgons, Graeae, Sphinx and Tyche,…
Wicked, so did the Sphinx chuck herself off the rock?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Sphinx chuck
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chuck | det |
| 6 | Sphinx | Sphinx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chuck | compound |
| 7 | chuck | chuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 did | obl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Sphinx chuck | off the rock; herself = she obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=Eventuality |
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
Yeah, she jumped off the cliff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 jumped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 cliff | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cliff | det |
| 7 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump off | past | she | the cliff | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory |
Option 2
Nah, she flew away home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | she | away, home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, straight off the rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 rock | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rock | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 rock | advmod |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, straight off the rock into the gorge below Thebes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 gorge | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 gorge | advmod |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 straight | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 gorge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gorge | det |
| 9 | gorge | gorge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | below | below | ADP | _ | 11 Thebes | case |
| 11 | Thebes | thebe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gorge | 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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