Test 9 · ★ · Greek Myths, Ion, part 42: a poisoned cup, a dove, and a s…

Who did the servant grass on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do on · To what, where: servant grass

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 536 «Greek Myths, Ion, part 42: a poisoned cup, a dove, and a son found again» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grass	compound
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	2 did	compound:prt
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

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

Creusa, the wife of Xuthus, who had hired the servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Creusa	Creusa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Creusa	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Xuthus	case
6	Xuthus	Xuthus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hired	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hired	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hired	aux
10	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wife	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 servant	det
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hired	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	past · perfect	the wife of Xuthus	the servant					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Creusa, the wife of Xuthus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the priestess of Delphi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 priestess	det
2	priestess	priestess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Delphi	case
4	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 priestess	nmod

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

Option 4

Creusa, the wife of Xuthus and the mother of Dorus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Creusa	Creusa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Creusa	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Xuthus	case
6	Xuthus	Xuthus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mother	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Creusa	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Dorus	case
11	Dorus	Dorus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod

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

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