Test 5 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and…
So Robigus was like the villain of the flowers, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Robigus · What happens: be
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 villain | advmod |
| 2 | Robigus | Robigus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 villain | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 villain | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 villain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 villain | det |
| 6 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 flowers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flowers | det |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 villain | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 villain | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 villain | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 villain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Robigus | like the villain; of the flowers | 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
yeah, he's a villain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 villain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 villain | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 villain | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 villain | det |
| 6 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | he | a villain | tree rules |
Option 2
no, he guarded the fields from rust
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 guarded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guarded | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guarded | nsubj |
| 4 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guarded | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 rust | case |
| 8 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guarded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past | he | the fields | from rust | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Beneficiary from rust=Theme |
Option 3
no, he was a friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 friend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 friend | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a friend | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he wrecked the tender herbs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wrecked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrecked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrecked | nsubj |
| 4 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 herbs | det |
| 6 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 herbs | amod |
| 7 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrecked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreck | past | he | the tender herbs | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=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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