Test 3 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers
Disney's Hercules is great fun. What is fair to say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hercules · What happens: be, say · To what, where: great fun · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 12 «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» of the history 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
Sentence 1: Disney's Hercules is great fun.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disney | Disney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hercules | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Disney | case |
| 3 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fun | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fun | cop |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fun | amod |
| 6 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fun | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Disney's Hercules | great fun | 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.
Sentence 2: What is fair to say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fair | csubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hercules was a Roman emperor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 emperor | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 emperor | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 4 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 emperor | amod |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hercules | a Roman emperor | tree rules |
Option 2
It follows the old Greek myth exactly, scene by scene
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 follows | nsubj |
| 2 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 myth | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 myth | amod |
| 5 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 myth | amod |
| 6 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 follows | obj |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 myth | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scene | punct |
| 9 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 myth | appos |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 scene | case |
| 11 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scene | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | It | the old Greek myth | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myth=Theme |
Option 3
It is a true history film
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 film | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 film | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 film | det |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 film | amod |
| 5 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 film | compound |
| 6 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a true history film | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It changes almost everything in the Greek myth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 changes | nsubj |
| 2 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 everything | advmod |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 changes | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 myth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 myth | det |
| 7 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 myth | amod |
| 8 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | It | everything | the Greek myth | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
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