Test 8 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 50: Heracles sa…

Mate, Cerberus had three heads, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cerberus · What happens: have · To what, where: three heads

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 544 «Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 50: Heracles saves a maiden, wins the oxen and apples, and enters the Underworld» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 heads	nummod
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cerberus	three heads				Mate vocative	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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

Yeah, and a dog's tail.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 tail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tail	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tail	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tail	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dog	case
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tail	punct

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

Option 2

Nah, just one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and snakes on his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 snakes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 snakes	cc
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snakes	nmod

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

Option 4

Nah, he had two tails.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tails	nummod
6	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	two tails					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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