Test 5 · ★ · The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone…
Did Theseus get scared of the robbers?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Theseus · What happens: get
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2044 «The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone, finds his father's sword and sandals, and sets out for Athens» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 2 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 robbers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 robbers | det |
| 7 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scared | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | Theseus | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Yeah, he wanted to turn back home now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 turn | mark |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 turn | advmod |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 turn | advmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 turn | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn back not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | now | home property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, proper scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scared | punct |
| 3 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 4 scared | advmod |
| 4 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, he just kept on walking the boat way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 kept | advmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 walking | mark |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | compound |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | he not said here | the boat way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he got well keen and wanted to go that way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 keen | advmod |
| 6 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | cc |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | keen property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | want | past | he not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | that way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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