Test 9 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 50: Heracles sa…

Was Medusa a real threat in the underworld?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Medusa

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Medusa	cop
2	Medusa	Medusa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 threat	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 threat	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 threat	amod
5	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 underworld	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 underworld	det
8	underworld	underworld	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threat	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 threat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Medusa					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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was just a shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 shadow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shadow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shadow	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 shadow	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shadow	det
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a shadow					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, a shadow.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shadow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shadow	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shadow	punct

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

Option 3

Yeah, she was.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, she turned him to stone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 stone	case
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she	him = he		stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to stone=Trajectory

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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