Test 9 · ★ · Classical Myths, The Realm of the Dead, part 28: the guilt…

is Rhadamanthus the judge who tells you your torments?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge, your · What happens: be, tell, torment · To what, where: Rhadamanthus, torments, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Rhadamanthus	cop
2	Rhadamanthus	Rhadamanthus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 judge	det
4	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rhadamanthus	appos
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 judge	acl:relcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tells	iobj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 torments	nmod:poss
9	torments	torment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tells	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Rhadamanthus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present		Rhadamanthus		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the judge	your torments	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient torment=Topic
3	torment		your			nom torment «state transitive»: poss=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

Nah, that's Minos, not him at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 Minos	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Minos	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Minos	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Minos	cop
5	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 him	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 him	advmod
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Minos	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 him	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	Minos				Minos nmod	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he's the judge of the living, but he tells people their fate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 judge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 judge	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 judge	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 judge	det
6	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 living	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 living	det
9	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 judge	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tells	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tells	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tells	nsubj
13	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 judge	parataxis
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tells	obj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fate	nmod:poss
16	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	the judge		of the living	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	he	people's fate	people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient fate=Topic
3	fate		people				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he tells each comer their torments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tells	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 comer	det
6	comer	comer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 torments	nmod:poss
8	torments	torment	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	he	each comer					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent comer=Recipient torment=Topic
2	torment		their = they						nom torment «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yeah, he judges all the dead souls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 judges	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 judges	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 judges	nsubj
4	judges	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 souls	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 souls	det
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 souls	amod
8	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 judges	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	present	he	all dead souls					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent soul=Value

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