Test 7 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief,…

How did Hyacinthus get whacked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: whack · To what, where: Hyacinthus

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 510 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Apollo, part 16: Apollo's grief, his son's death, and his punishments» 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	5 whacked	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 whacked	aux
3	Hyacinthus	Hyacinthus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 whacked	nsubj
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 whacked	aux:pass
5	whacked	whack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 whacked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past · passive · do-support		Hyacinthus					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Zephyrus blew a discus off course and it smacked him on the bonce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zephyrus	Zephyrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 discus	det
4	discus	discus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	6 course	case
6	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smacked	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 smacked	nsubj
9	smacked	smack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 smacked	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 bonce	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bonce	det
13	bonce	bonce	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	Zephyrus	a discus				off course	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent discus=Patient off course=Co-Patient
2	smack	past	discus	Zephyrus				on the bonce	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on bonce=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A discus smacked him on the bonce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 discus	det
2	discus	discus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smacked	nsubj
3	smacked	smack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smacked	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bonce	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bonce	det
7	bonce	bonce	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smack	past	a discus	him = he				on the bonce	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on bonce=Patient

Option 3

A javelin got him in the chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 javelin	det
2	javelin	javelin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 chest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chest	det
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	a javelin	him = he		the chest			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

A discus hit him on the neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 discus	det
2	discus	discus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hit	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neck	det
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a discus	him = he				on the neck	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on neck=Patient

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