Test 11 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32…

Were the Sirens kinda lame at singing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sirens · What happens: be, lame, sing · To what, where: Sirens

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Sirens	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sirens	det
3	Sirens	siren	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lame	nsubj
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 lame	advmod
5	lame	lame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 singing	mark
7	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lame	advcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lame	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Sirens		tree rules
2	lame	present	the Sirens		kinda property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the Sirens not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, their songs were lovely and loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lovely	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 songs	nmod:poss
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lovely	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lovely	cop
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 loud	cc
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lovely	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	their songs	lovely property	tree rules
2	be		their songs not said here		tree rules
3	sing		their = they		nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yeah, their songs were dull and flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dull	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 songs	nmod:poss
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dull	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dull	cop
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flat	cc
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dull	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	their songs	dull property	tree rules
2	be		their songs not said here		tree rules
3	sing		their = they		nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, their songs were fake and they lost their feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 songs	nmod:poss
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fake	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fake	cop
6	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lost	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fake	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feathers	nmod:poss
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	their songs		fake property	tree rules
2	lose	past	songs = song	songs's feathers		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality
3	sing		their = they			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yeah, their songs were fake and they lost their feathers to the Muses at once

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 songs	nmod:poss
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fake	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fake	cop
6	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lost	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
9	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fake	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feathers	nmod:poss
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lost	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Muses	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Muses	det
14	Muses	muse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lost	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	their songs		fake property	tree rules
2	lose	past	songs = song	songs's feathers	to the Muses	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality
3	sing		their = they			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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