Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and…

Is that Vertumnus dude basically a shape-shifting mad lad, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Vertumnus dude · What happens: shift, be · To what, where: shifting mad lad

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lad	cop
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 lad	mark
3	Vertumnus	Vertumnus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dude	compound
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lad	nsubj
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	11 lad	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lad	det
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shifting	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 shape	punct
9	shifting	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 lad	amod
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lad	amod
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lad	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 lad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shift	gerund							vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	Vertumnus dude	a shifting mad lad				basically property	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 · ← Mova's choice

no, he only wore one disguise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wore	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wore	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wore	advmod
5	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 disguise	nummod
7	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	he	one disguise					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he changed forms to win Pomona

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 changed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 changed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 changed	nsubj
4	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 changed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 win	mark
7	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 changed	advcl
8	Pomona	Pomona	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	he	forms					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient
2	win	to-infinitive	he not said here	Pomona					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomona=Eventuality

Option 3

yeah, he's a god of shapes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 god	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 god	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 god	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 god	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 god	det
6	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 shapes	case
8	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 god	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a god				of shapes	tree rules

Option 4

no, he only came as a shepherd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 shepherd	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shepherd	det
8	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he					as a shepherd	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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