Test 12 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the d…

how did Apollo wipe out the Greek camp in the Iliad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Apollo · What happens: wipe out · To what, where: Greek camp, Iliad

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 508 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Eos and Tithonus, part 14: the dawn goddess loses her lover to old age, and Apollo is born on Delos» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wipe	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wipe	aux
3	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wipe	nsubj
4	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 wipe	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 camp	det
7	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 camp	amod
8	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipe	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Iliad	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Iliad	det
11	Iliad	Iliad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 camp	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wipe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	past · do-support	Apollo	the Greek camp		the Iliad			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent camp=Theme in iliad=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

with a plague of arrows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 plague	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plague	det
3	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 arrows	case
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plague	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plague			arrows					nom plague «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

with a storm of spears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 storm	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 spears	case
5	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 storm	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm		spears						nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

with a plague of arrows sent from the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	3 plague	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plague	det
3	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 arrows	case
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plague	nmod
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 arrows	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		arrows not said here		the sky			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from sky=Initial_Location
2	plague			arrows					nom plague «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

by sending a raging plague of arrows over the whole camp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sending	mark
2	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plague	det
4	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 plague	amod
5	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sending	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 arrows	case
7	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plague	nmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 camp	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 camp	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 camp	amod
11	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	send	gerund	a raging plague of arrows	the whole camp	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plague=Theme
2	rage	gerund			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	plague		arrows		nom plague «state transitive»: of=patient

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