Test 11 · ★ · Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to s…

Sick, how did Perseus flex on the Graeae?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Perseus flex, Graeae

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sick	conj
5	Perseus	Perseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flex	compound
6	flex	flex	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 Graeae	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Graeae	det
9	Graeae	Graeae	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flex	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Perseus flex		the Graeae			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flex=Eventuality

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

took their hair and teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 teeth	cc
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		their hair and teeth					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

took their eye and tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eye	nmod:poss
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tooth	cc
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eye	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		their eye and tooth					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme

Option 3

seized their shared eye and tooth in a cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eye	nmod:poss
3	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eye	amod
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 seized	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tooth	cc
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eye	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cave	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 seized	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past		their shared eye and tooth		a cave			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	share	participle							tree rules

Option 4

took their one eye and one tooth away by force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eye	nmod:poss
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eye	nummod
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tooth	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tooth	nummod
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eye	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	1 took	advmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 force	case
10	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		their one eye and one tooth				by force; away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme

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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