Test 4 · ★ · Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the fie…
So what did Aetes promise if the boys proved they were proper gods?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: do, prove, be · To what, where: Aetes promise, proper gods
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 539 «Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the field of Ares, the Fleece and a murder» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Aetes | Aetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | compound |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 proved | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boys | det |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 proved | nsubj |
| 9 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gods | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gods | cop |
| 12 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gods | amod |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 proved | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Aetes promise | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | prove a condition, not said to happen | past | the boys | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | boys = boy | proper gods | 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
They'd get the ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | They | the ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The Fleece would be sold, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fleece | det |
| 2 | Fleece | fleece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sold | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sold | aux:pass |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | would · passive | the Fleece | mate vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Fleece would be theirs, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fleece | det |
| 2 | Fleece | fleece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 theirs | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 theirs | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 theirs | cop |
| 5 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fam | punct |
| 7 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 theirs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | the Fleece | theirs = they | tree rules |
Option 4
Gold for them, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Gold | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fam | punct |
| 5 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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