Test 6 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part…

Who was the proper strongman on the boat, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: proper strongman, boat

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 537 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason crosses a river, meets his uncle, and sails to Lemnos» 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	5 strongman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strongman	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strongman	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strongman	amod
5	strongman	strongman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 boat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strongman	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strongman	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 strongman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the proper strongman and fam		the boat			tree rules

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

Tiphys, at the steering oar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiphys	Tiphys	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 oar	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 oar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oar	det
5	steering	steering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oar	compound
6	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tiphys	appos

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

Option 2

Jason, at the helm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 helm	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 helm	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 helm	det
5	helm	helm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jason	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Heracles, sat in the bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Heracles	punct
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bow	det
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Heracles			the bow			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bow=Location

Option 4

Castor, the boxer, at the rear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Castor	castor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boxer	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boxer	det
4	boxer	boxer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Castor	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rear	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 rear	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rear	det
8	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Castor	conj

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

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