Test 10 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

who was Orestes' bestie so loyal it's basically a saying now

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» 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	7 loyal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loyal	cop
3	Orestes	Orestes	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 loyal	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 Orestes	case
5	bestie	bestie	X	Foreign=Yes	7 loyal	dep
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 loyal	advmod
7	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saying	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	aux
10	basically	basically	ADV	_	12 saying	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 saying	det
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 loyal	parataxis
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 saying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						loyal property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present · progressive	it				now	basically property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Agamemnon, his cousin and brother-in-law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agamemnon	Agamemnon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cousin	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cousin	nmod:poss
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Agamemnon	appos
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brother	cc
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 law	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 law	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 in	punct
10	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Agamemnon	appos

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

Option 2

Menelaus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pylades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pylades	pylade	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Diomedes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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