Styx

Introduction

Styx is a system designed to provide an electronic corpus-based exercise book of Czech morphology and syntax with exercises directly selected from the Prague Dependency Treebank, the largest annotated corpus of Czech (see sample data).

• Exercises give practice in
  • classifying part of speech and particular morphological categories (such as gender, number, case, tense, ...) of words
  • parsing a sentence and classifying syntactic function (such as subject, predicate, objects, ...) of words
• Correct answers at hand
• Java implementation

 Download leaflet (pdf)

The Styx system is extended with the Čapek editor allowing users to  practice morphology and syntax on their own sentences.

More details

We present the electronic exercise book of Czech morphology and syntax that consists of more than 11 thousand Czech sentences

1. View them in Charon.
2. Using Charon create an exercise, i.e. a list of sentences you want to practice.
3. Open the exercise in Styx and start practicing.
4. Check your analyses in Styx.

Read and watch

• Demo on Styx, see demo
• How to prepare the first lesson on Styx: metodika první hodiny práce se cvičebnicí Styx pro vyučující 
• How to install Styx and Charon and how to manage them, read user guide

Download

• The electronic exercise-book is available as the annotated corpus STYX 1.0 outside the Styx system. You can browse it in Kontext (Jak na to )
• Styx v. 0.9.3 under Linux 32bits, under Linux 64bits, under MS Windows
• 50 sample sentences (view them in Charon; practice them in Styx.)

Contact

Barbora Hladká