Test 4 · ★ · Greek Myths, Meleager and Atalanta, part 19: the boar is s…

Atalanta beat everyone in the race yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Atalanta · What happens: beat · To what, where: everyone

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Atalanta	Atalanta	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 beat	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 race	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obl
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 beat	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Atalanta	everyone				in the race	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient in race=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

not til Hippomenes chucked the apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 chucked	advmod
2	til	till	ADP	_	4 chucked	mark
3	Hippomenes	Hippomenes	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chucked	nsubj
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 apples	det
6	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chucked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not chuck	past	Hippomenes	the apples					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme

Option 2

not until Milo tripped her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tripped	advmod
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 tripped	mark
3	Milo	Milo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tripped	nsubj
4	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tripped	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 tripped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trip up	past	Milo	her = she					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent

Option 3

nope, Hippolytus beat her first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	Hippolytus	Hippolytus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 first	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Hippolytus	Hippolytus's first					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location first=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, Hippomenes beat her outright once he threw down the three golden apples at her feet

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 beat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Hippomenes	Hippomenes	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 outright	nmod:poss
6	outright	outright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beat	xcomp
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 threw	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	nsubj
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	advcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 threw	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 apples	det
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 apples	nummod
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 apples	amod
14	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 threw	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 feet	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Hippomenes					outright property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	throw down	past	he	the three golden apples		Hippomenes's feet			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at foot=Destination

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