Test 2 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies…

Mate, who was the Centaur that ferried people for cash?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Centaur · What happens: be, ferry · To what, where: Centaur, people

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 546 «Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies in a poisoned robe, and Deianeira takes her own life.» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Centaur	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Centaur	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Centaur	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Centaur	det
6	Centaur	centaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	appos
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ferried	nsubj
8	ferried	ferry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Centaur	acl:relcl
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ferried	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 cash	case
11	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ferried	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate	the Centaur					tree rules
2	ferry	past	the Centaur	people				for cash	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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

Pholus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pholus	Pholus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the Centaur Eurytion of Pelion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Eurytion	det
2	Centaur	Centaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Eurytion	compound
3	Eurytion	Eurytion	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Pelion	case
5	Pelion	Pelion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Eurytion	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nessus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nessus	Nessus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Eurytion the Centaur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eurytion	Eurytion	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Centaur	det
3	Centaur	Centaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Eurytion	flat

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

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