Test 11 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…
Did the masters really wait on their slaves at the Saturnalia?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: masters · What happens: do, wait · To what, where: slaves
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 masters | det |
| 3 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 slaves | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 8 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wait | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Saturnalia | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Saturnalia | det |
| 11 | Saturnalia | Saturnalia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | wait | present | the masters | masters's slaves | at the Saturnalia | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slave=Location |
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
Yes, they served food and wine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 served | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 served | nsubj |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wine | cc |
| 7 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 food | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | they | food and wine | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Attribute |
Option 2
Yes, at festivals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 festivals | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 festivals | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 festivals | case |
| 4 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No, but at banquets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 banquets | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 banquets | cc |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 banquets | case |
| 5 | banquets | banquet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, at banquets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 banquets | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 banquets | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 banquets | case |
| 4 | banquets | banquet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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