Test 5 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is bor…

Wicked, what was the nymph Syrinx's trouble?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Syrinx · What happens: be, trouble · To what, where: Wicked nymph

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nymph	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 nymph	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nymph	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nymph	det
6	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	Syrinx	Syrinx	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 trouble	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Syrinx	case
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nymph	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 nymph	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Wicked nymph				Syrinx's trouble nmod	tree rules
2	trouble		Syrinx						nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

Pan was after her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Pan				after her = she		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Zeus was chasing her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chasing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chasing	aux
3	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · progressive	Zeus	her = she					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

she refused to marry Pan and ran off to the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	she			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not marry	to-infinitive	she not said here	Pan		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pan=Patient
3	run off	past	she not said here		to the river result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result

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

Pan was chasing her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chasing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chasing	aux
3	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · progressive	Pan	her = she					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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