Test 2 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32…

Those pirates were proper sus, weren't they?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pirates · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: proper sus, they

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 pirates	det
2	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sus	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sus	cop
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sus	amod
5	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sus	punct
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 they	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 they	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sus	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that pirates	proper sus					tree rules
2	not is a	past	that pirates not said here	they					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

They knocked out the girls and nicked them while the whole festival was asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knocked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nicked	cc
7	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nicked	obj
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 asleep	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 festival	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 festival	amod
12	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asleep	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	cop
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nicked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knock out	past	They	the girls		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
2	nick	past	They not said here	girls = girl		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	is	past	the whole festival		asleep property	tree rules

Option 2

They knocked out the girls, nicked them and sold them as slaves abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knocked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nicked	punct
7	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nicked	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sold	cc
10	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sold	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 slaves	case
13	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sold	obl
14	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	10 sold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knock out	past	They	the girls		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
2	nick	past	They not said here	girls = girl		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	sell	past	They not said here	girls = girl	as slaves; abroad property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

They nabbed the girls at the harbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nabbed	nsubj
2	nabbed	nab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nabbed	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 harbour	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 harbour	det
7	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	past	They	the girls		the harbour			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They knocked out the girls and nicked them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knocked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nicked	cc
7	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	past	They	the girls					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
2	nick	past	They not said here	girls = girl					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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