Test 1 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and…

Did the Asclepius dude really get the Medusa blood, or is that just the legend talk?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Asclepius dude · What happens: do, get, be · To what, where: Asclepius dude, Medusa blood, legend talk

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 530 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and Seasons, part 36: Asclepius heals the sick, Janus guards the gates, and Vertumnus wins Pomona» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
3	Asclepius	Asclepius	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dude	compound
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dude	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blood	det
8	Medusa	Medusa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 blood	compound
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talk	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 talk	cc
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 talk	cop
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 talk	mark
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 talk	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 talk	det
16	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talk	compound
17	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the Asclepius dude	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dude=Eventuality
2	get	present	the Asclepius dude not said here	the Medusa blood	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus
3	is a	present		the legend talk	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

the priests swore it was true fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priests	det
2	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swore	nsubj
3	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fact	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fact	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fact	amod
7	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swore	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	the priests						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	true fact					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yes, the gods confirmed it at Delos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 confirmed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gods	det
4	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 confirmed	nsubj
5	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 confirmed	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Delos	case
8	Delos	Delos	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 confirmed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confirm	past	the gods	it		Delos			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Topic

Option 3

no, Asclepius never lived and was made up entirely by the Romans later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	Asclepius	Asclepius	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 lived	advmod
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lived	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 made	compound:prt
10	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	8 made	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 Romans	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Romans	det
13	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl:agent
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	past	Asclepius						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make up	past · passive	the Romans					entirely, late property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the legend said so, not proven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 legend	det
2	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 proven	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 proven	advmod
7	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the legend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not prove	participle							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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