Test 2 · ★ · Greek Myths, Meleager and Atalanta, part 19: the boar is s…

bruv his uncles just grabbed the hide, that's messed up

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: grab, mess up · To what, where: hide, that

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbed	nsubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 uncles	nmod:poss
3	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bruv	conj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 grabbed	advmod
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hide	det
7	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 messed	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 messed	nsubj:pass
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 messed	aux:pass
11	messed	mess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grabbed	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 messed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	bruv and his uncles	the hide					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme
2	mess up	present · passive		that					tree rules

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

nah, they were just being polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 polite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 polite	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 polite	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 polite	advmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 polite	cop
7	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					polite property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they earned it, the hunt was theirs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 earned	nsubj
2	earned	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 earned	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hunt	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunt	det
6	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earned	obl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 theirs	cop
8	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hunt	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	past	they	it				the hunt obl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	past		theirs = they					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

proper cheeky, they wanted the spoil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	proper	properly	ADV	_	2 cheeky	advmod
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wanted	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spoil	det
7	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the spoil					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spoil=Theme

Option 4

they're fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					fine property	tree rules

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