Test 12 · ★ · Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree a…

Mate, which tree nymph was all strong and sturdy, like a proper beech?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: nymph, be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 528 «Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree and mountain nymphs, Echo and Narcissus, and the winds of Aeolus» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strong	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nymph	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 nymph	nsubj
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nymph	compound
5	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 strong	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 strong	advmod
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sturdy	cc
10	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strong	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beech	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 beech	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 beech	det
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beech	amod
15	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strong	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 strong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	nymph		Mate and tree nymph		tree rules
2	is	past	Mate and tree nymph	all, strong property	tree rules
3	be		Mate and tree nymph not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

the nymph of the great sycamore who guarded the old grove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nymph	det
2	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guarded	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 sycamore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sycamore	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sycamore	amod
6	sycamore	sycamore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nymph	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 guarded	nsubj
8	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grove	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grove	amod
11	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guarded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	the nymph of the great sycamore	the old grove					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grove=Beneficiary

Option 2

the elm nymph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nymph	det
2	elm	elm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nymph	compound
3	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the ash nymph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nymph	det
2	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nymph	compound
3	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the beech nymph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nymph	det
2	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nymph	compound
3	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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