Test 9 · ★ · Greek Myths, Meleager and Atalanta, part 19: the boar is s…

Herostratus burned it just for clout, didn't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Herostratus · What happens: burn, not do · To what, where: it

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Herostratus	Herostratus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 clout	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 clout	case
6	clout	clout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 burned	parataxis
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 did	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 burned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	Herostratus	it				for clout	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not do	past	Herostratus						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, he burned it to save the city from the Persians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burned	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 save	mark
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 burned	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 save	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 Persians	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Persians	det
12	Persians	Persian	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	he	it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive	he not said here	the city		the Persians			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent city=Theme from persian=Source

Option 2

nah, he did it for the gold inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 gold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gold	det
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	it				for the gold; inside property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he wanted to be famous, the absolute muppet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 famous	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 famous	cop
7	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 muppet	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 muppet	det
10	absolute	absolute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 muppet	amod
11	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the absolute muppet					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the absolute muppet not said here					famous property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, he was a priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 priest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 priest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 priest	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a priest					tree rules

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