Test 11 · ★ · Greek Myths, Meleager and Atalanta, part 19: the boar is s…

Agamemnon killed a stag by accident and the calm stopped the boats, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Agamemnon, calm · What happens: kill, stop · To what, where: stag, boats

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 513 «Greek Myths, Meleager and Atalanta, part 19: the boar is slain, the uncles fall, Atalanta's race ends in a trick, and the temple of Artemis burns» 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	Agamemnon	Agamemnon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stag	det
4	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 accident	case
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stopped	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calm	det
9	calm	calm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	nsubj
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boats	det
12	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stopped	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	10 stopped	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 killed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	Agamemnon	a stag				by accident	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme
2	stop	past	the calm	the boats					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality boat=Eventuality

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

nah, Poseidon got mad at the boats

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	Poseidon	Poseidon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 boats	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boats	det
8	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Poseidon			the boats		mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, Artemis was sick about her grove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	Artemis	Artemis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	cop
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 grove	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grove	nmod:poss
8	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Artemis					about Artemis's grove; sick property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, Agamemnon killed a bull on the beach and the wind changed to the south that day

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Agamemnon	Agamemnon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 killed	nsubj
4	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bull	det
6	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 beach	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beach	det
9	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 changed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changed	nsubj
13	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 killed	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 south	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 south	det
16	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changed	obl
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	Agamemnon	a bull		the beach			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Theme
2	change	past	the wind				day	to the south result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to south=Result

Option 4

yeah, the fleet sailed too early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sailed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fleet	det
4	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sailed	nsubj
5	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 early	advmod
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	the fleet					early property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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