Test 4 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers
In Percy Jackson the gods are like modern heroes. What were they for the Greeks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gods · What happens: be · To what, where: Percy Jackson
This is test 4 · ★ 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: In Percy Jackson the gods are like modern heroes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Jackson | case |
| 2 | Percy | Percy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Jackson | compound |
| 3 | Jackson | Jackson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heroes | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gods | det |
| 5 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heroes | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heroes | cop |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 heroes | case |
| 8 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heroes | amod |
| 9 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heroes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the gods | Percy Jackson | like modern heroes | 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 were they for the Greeks?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Greeks | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Greeks | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Greeks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Greeks | det |
| 6 | Greeks | Greek | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gods = god | for the Greeks | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only cartoon characters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 characters | advmod |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 characters | compound |
| 3 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Real gods to worship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gods | amod |
| 2 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 worship | mark |
| 4 | worship | worship | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gods | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worship | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Aliens from outer space
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aliens | alien | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 space | case |
| 3 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 space | amod |
| 4 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Aliens | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ordinary kings of Athens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kings | amod |
| 2 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Athens | case |
| 4 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kings | nmod |
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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