Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is bor…

Mate, why did they call him Pan, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: call · To what, where: Mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 529 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is born strange, wins the gods' love, makes his pipe, and guards the shepherds» 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	6 call	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 call	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 call	obj
8	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	6 call	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	they	Mate					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme pan=Result

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

cos he had goat legs and horns and they laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legs	compound
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 horns	cc
7	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 legs	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laughed	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laughed	nsubj
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	cos	goat legs and horns					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	laugh	past	legs = leg						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cos his goat legs made the gods laugh all night at the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	co	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 legs	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	compound
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gods	det
7	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 laugh	nsubj
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	ccomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 feast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feast	det
13	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present		his goat legs			tree rules
2	make	past	his goat legs				tree rules
3	laugh	present	the gods		the feast	night	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

cos he pleased everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everyone	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 everyone	nsubj
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 everyone	amod
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos he delighted them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delighted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 delighted	nsubj
3	delighted	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 delighted	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	delight	past	cos	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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