Test 6 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned ro…

Was baby Heracles scared of the snakes?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby · What happens: be, scare · To what, where: baby

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 541 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned robe, Pelops wins a race, baby Heracles and the snakes, Vice's offer» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 baby	cop
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
3	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 baby	appos
4	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 snakes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snakes	det
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scared	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		baby					tree rules
2	scare	past	baby					of the snakes	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

No, he fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 fled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fled	nsubj
4	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, he was terrified then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 terrified	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 terrified	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	cop
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 terrified	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, he strangled them both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 strangled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 strangled	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 strangled	nsubj
4	strangled	strangle	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 strangled	obj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 strangled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strangle	past	he	them = they					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Patient both=Result

Option 4

Yes, he cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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