Test 4 · ★ · Greek Myths, Ion, part 42: a poisoned cup, a dove, and a s…

Why did Creusa get all jealous, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Creusa · What happens: get, innit

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 536 «Greek Myths, Ion, part 42: a poisoned cup, a dove, and a son found again» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Creusa	Creusa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 jealous	advmod
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Creusa					jealous property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	innit	infinitive	Creusa not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice

She reckoned he'd steal her throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 steal	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 steal	aux
5	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckoned	ccomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 throne	nmod:poss
7	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	She						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	steal	would	he	her throne					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location throne=Theme

Option 2

She thought he was Xuthus's bastard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bastard	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bastard	cop
5	Xuthus	Xuthus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bastard	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Xuthus	case
7	bastard	bastard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	Xuthus's bastard					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She reckoned Ion was her hubby's secret kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ion	Ion	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckoned	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hubby	nmod:poss
6	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kid	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hubby	case
8	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kid	amod
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	obj

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

Option 4

She reckoned Ion was her hubby's secret kid from some other woman, so she plotted

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ion	Ion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kid	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hubby	nmod:poss
6	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kid	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hubby	case
8	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kid	amod
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	ccomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 woman	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kid	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 plotted	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 plotted	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 plotted	nsubj
17	plotted	plot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckoned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	She			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Ion	Ion's hubby's secret kid	from some other woman	tree rules
3	plot	past	Ion			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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