Test 10 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

Which city did they all end up building, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: city, they · What happens: do, end up, innit · To what, where: building

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 534 «Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Cadmus follows a heifer, kills a dragon and sows its teeth» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 end	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 end	advmod
6	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 end	compound:prt
8	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 end	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which city		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	they	building	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient building=Result
3	innit	infinitive	they not said here		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

Sparta

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sparta	sparta	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the city of Thebes on the Ismenus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Thebes	case
4	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 city	nmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Ismenus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ismenus	det
7	Ismenus	Ismenus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Thebes	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Thebes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the new walled town of Cadmea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 new	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 walled	nsubj
3	walled	wall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walled	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Cadmea	case
6	Cadmea	Cadmea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 town	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wall	past	the new	town of Cadmea					tree rules

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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