Test 8 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The God Pan, part 35: Pan is bor…

Init, why did the shepherds go dead quiet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Init, shepherds · What happens: do, go · To what, where: dead quiet

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Init	Init	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Init	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shepherds	det
6	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 quiet	amod
9	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Init						tree rules
2	go	present	the shepherds	dead quiet					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quiet=Theme

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

Pan was sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sleeping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sleeping	aux
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	Pan						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Pan was taking his siesta

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taking	aux
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 siesta	nmod:poss
5	siesta	siesta	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	Pan	Pan's siesta					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siesta=Theme

Option 3

Pan was having a kip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 having	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kip	det
5	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	Pan	a kip					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kip=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pan was having his nap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 having	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nap	nmod:poss
5	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	Pan	Pan's nap					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient

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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