Test 13 · ★ · Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to s…

Dead serious, what made the sand snakes?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make · To what, where: sand snakes

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 serious	amod
2	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snakes	det
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snakes	compound
8	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the sand snakes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material snake=Product

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

the dripping rain of Zeus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rain	det
2	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rain	amod
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Zeus	case
5	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rain	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drip	gerund							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	rain			Zeus					nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Medusa's dripping blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Medusa	Medusa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blood	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Medusa	case
3	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blood	amod
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drip	gerund							vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Poseidon's dripping rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poseidon	Poseidon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rain	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Poseidon	case
3	dripping	dripping	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rain	compound
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain		Poseidon						nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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