Test 8 · ★ · Greek and Roman Myths, The Gods of Love and Youth, part 32…
Did the Muses let anyone blag them, though?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Muses, anyone · What happens: let, blag · To what, where: Muses
This is test 8 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Muses | det |
| 3 | Muses | muse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 blag | nsubj |
| 6 | blag | blag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blag | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 though | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 blag | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past · do-support | the Muses | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | blag | infinitive | anyone | Muses = muse | 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
No, they punished anyone who tried to outdo them, every single time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 punished | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 punished | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 punished | nsubj |
| 4 | punished | punish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 punished | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 outdo | mark |
| 9 | outdo | outdo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 outdo | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 time | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anyone | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | past | they | anyone | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | outdo not said to happen | to-infinitive | them = they | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, they punished anyone who tried to outdo them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 punished | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 punished | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 punished | nsubj |
| 4 | punished | punish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 punished | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 outdo | mark |
| 9 | outdo | outdo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 outdo | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | past | they | anyone | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | outdo not said to happen | to-infinitive | them = they | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
Option 3
No, they punished anyone who tried to outdo them and turned many into stone
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 punished | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 punished | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 punished | nsubj |
| 4 | punished | punish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 punished | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 outdo | mark |
| 9 | outdo | outdo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 outdo | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 punished | conj |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 turned | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | past | they | anyone | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | outdo not said to happen | to-infinitive | them = they | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | past | they not said here | many | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent many=Theme into stone=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
No, they forgave every rival
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 forgave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgave | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forgave | nsubj |
| 4 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 rival | det |
| 6 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | past | they | every rival | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Theme |
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