Test 1 · ★ · Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to s…

Dude, who wanted to chuck Danae and her baby in the sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: want, chuck · To what, where: Danae, sea

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 535 «Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to stone and wins Andromeda» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 chuck	mark
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	Danae	Danae	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 baby	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 baby	nmod:poss
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Danae	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Dude						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	chuck not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dude not said here	Danae and Dude's baby		the sea			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent danae=Theme in sea=Destination

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

Acrisius, the king of Argos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acrisius	Acrisius	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 king	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Acrisius	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Argos	case
6	Argos	Argos	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 king	nmod

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

Option 2

Polydectes, king of Seriphus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polydectes	polydecte	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 king	punct
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Polydectes	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Seriphus	case
5	Seriphus	Seriphus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Acrisius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Pentheus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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