Test 9 · ★ · Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree a…

Proper, what do the mermaids come from, them old sea nymphs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, come · To what, where: old sea nymphs

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 come	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mermaids	det
6	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 them	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 from	punct
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	obl
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nymphs	amod
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nymphs	compound
13	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	come	present		old sea nymphs				from mermaids = mermaid; properly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location

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 Oreades and Dryads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Oreades	det
2	Oreades	Oreade	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Dryads	cc
4	Dryads	dryad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Oreades	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Oceanides and Nereides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Oceanides	det
2	Oceanides	Oceanides	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Nereides	cc
4	Nereides	Nereides	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Oceanides	conj

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

Option 3

the Titan sea gods Oceanus and Nereus with their many daughters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	Titan	Titan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sea	compound
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gods	nsubj
4	gods	god	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Oceanus	Oceanus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gods	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Nereus	cc
7	Nereus	Nereus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Oceanus	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 daughters	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughters	nmod:poss
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daughters	amod
11	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gods	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	god	present	the Titan sea	Oceanus and Nereus				with Oceanus's many daughters	tree rules

Option 4

the Nereides, the daughters of Nereus and Doris who lived beneath the waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Nereides	det
2	Nereides	Nereides	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lived	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nereides	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 daughters	det
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lived	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Nereus	case
7	Nereus	Nereus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 daughters	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Doris	cc
9	Doris	Doris	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Nereus	conj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	14 waves	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 waves	det
14	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the Nereides			the waves			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath wave=Location

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