Test 7 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

Lol, the teeth thing, who told him to plant them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teeth thing · What happens: tell, plant · To what, where: him, them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 plant	mark
11	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 plant	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	teeth thing		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	plant not said to happen	to-infinitive	teeth thing not said here	them = they					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

Hephaestus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hephaestus	Hephaestus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Apollo the Seer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Seer	det
3	Seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Apollo	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pallas-Athene

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pallas	Pallas	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Athene	punct
3	Athene	Athene	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pallas	flat

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

Option 4

Zeus, king of gods and men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Zeus	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 gods	case
5	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 king	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 men	cc
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gods	conj

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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