Test 3 · ★ · Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilt…

wait, the Danaides killed fifty husbands in one night??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Danaides · What happens: wait, kill · To what, where: fifty husbands

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 522 «Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilty are judged and punished in Tartarus» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Danaides	det
4	Danaides	Danaides	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 killed	nsubj
5	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 husbands	nummod
7	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 killed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 night	nummod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 killed	obl
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	past	the Danaides	fifty husbands			night		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, except Hypermnestra, she spared hers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 spared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Hypermnestra	punct
3	except	except	ADP	_	4 Hypermnestra	case
4	Hypermnestra	Hypermnestra	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spared	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spared	nsubj
7	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 spared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past	Hypermnestra	hers = she					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent her=Asset

Option 2

Yeah, all but one, she spared hers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 one	nsubj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 one	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 spared	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spared	nsubj
8	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 spared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past	she	one					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent her=Asset

Option 3

Yeah, all but Hypermnestra, who spared Lynceus and fled to Argos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 spared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 Hypermnestra	det
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 Hypermnestra	cc
5	Hypermnestra	Hypermnestra	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spared	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spared	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 spared	nsubj
8	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Lynceus	Lynceus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spared	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fled	cc
11	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spared	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Argos	case
13	Argos	Argos	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past	all Hypermnestra	Lynceus					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent lynceus=Asset
2	flee	past	all Hypermnestra not said here			Argos			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to argos=Initial_Location

Option 4

Yeah, they filled that leaky jar forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 filled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 filled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 filled	nsubj
4	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 jar	mark
6	leaky	leaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jar	amod
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	advcl
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 filled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past	they					forever property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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