Test 4 · ★ · Gods and Heroes, Perseus, part 41: Perseus turns foes to s…

Proper gutted, what happened to Cadmus's throne?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut, happen

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 gutted	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gutted	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 throne	case
7	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 throne	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Cadmus	case
9	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	happen	past						to Cadmus's throne	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 right answer

Pentheus took it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pentheus	Pentheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj

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

Option 2

it was stolen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stolen	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	aux:pass
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · passive		it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he lost it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Pentheus seized it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pentheus	Pentheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	Pentheus	it					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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