Test 8 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Janus and the Gods of Gates and…

Why was Asclepius's dog on the list of his stuff, is that random?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: be, list · To what, where: dog, list, stuff

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dog	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dog	cop
3	Asclepius	Asclepius	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dog	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Asclepius	case
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 random	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 list	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 list	det
8	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dog	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 stuff	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 stuff	nmod:poss
11	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 list	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dog	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 random	cop
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 random	nsubj
15	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Asclepius's dog	the list of dog's stuff		tree rules
2	is	present	Asclepius's dog			random property	tree rules
3	list			dog's stuff			nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

dogs were one of his usual attributes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 attributes	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 dogs	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 usual	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 usual	nmod:poss
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	nmod
7	attributes	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		one				of his usual	tree rules
2	attribute	present	dogs						tree rules

Option 2

it was a sign of loyalty to Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sign	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sign	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 loyalty	case
6	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sign	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Rome	case
8	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sign	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a sign	Rome			of loyalty	tree rules

Option 3

for the hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 hunt	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hunt	det
3	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

dogs guarded his temple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 guarded	nsubj
2	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 temple	nmod:poss
4	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guarded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	dogs	his temple					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Beneficiary

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