Test 10 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32…

Did the Pierides win their sing-off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pierides · What happens: win · To what, where: sing off

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 526 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32: Hymen's rescue, Iris, Hebe, Ganymedes and the Muses» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Pierides	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pierides	det
3	Pierides	Pieride	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 win	nsubj
4	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 off	nmod:poss
6	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 off	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sing	punct
8	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 win	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 win	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	the Pierides	Pierides's sing off					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent off=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

Nah, they got turned into birds and flew off to the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux:pass
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 flew	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		they				into birds result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into bird=Result
2	fly off	past						to the forest result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to forest=Result

Option 2

Nah, they got turned into birds, but they were sent back to their father

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux:pass
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux:pass
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 turned	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 father	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		they				into birds result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into bird=Result
2	send back	past · passive		birds = bird	birds's father				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to father=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they got turned into birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux:pass
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		they				into birds result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into bird=Result

Option 4

Nah, they were drowned at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 drowned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drowned	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drowned	aux:pass
5	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past · passive		they		sea			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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