Test 10 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part…
Who kicked the lads back to work in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: kick back, work · To what, where: lads
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 537 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason crosses a river, meets his uncle, and sails to Lemnos» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 kicked | nsubj |
| 2 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lads | det |
| 4 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kicked | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 kicked | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 work | mark |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kicked | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick back | past | the lads | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent lad=Patient | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | in the end | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in end=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
Orpheus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orpheus | Orpheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Heracles, the big strongman, who yelled at them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heracles | Heracles | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strongman | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 strongman | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strongman | amod |
| 5 | strongman | strongman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Heracles | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 yelled | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 yelled | nsubj |
| 8 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strongman | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 yelled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past | the big strongman | at them = they | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus |
Option 3
Heracles, who gave them a proper talking-to
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heracles | Heracles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 talking | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 talking | amod |
| 8 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 talking | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 gave | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Heracles | a proper talking | them = they | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient talking=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Heracles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heracles | Heracles | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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