Test 8 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned ro…

Why did Amphitryon send Heracles to the countryside?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amphitryon · What happens: send · To what, where: Heracles, countryside

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 send	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 send	aux
3	Amphitryon	Amphitryon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 send	nsubj
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 send	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 countryside	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 countryside	det
8	countryside	countryside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · do-support	Amphitryon	Heracles		the countryside			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heracles=Theme to countryside=Destination

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

Amphitryon had heard the prophecy and wanted his son hidden from the gods and from his enemies

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amphitryon	Amphitryon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prophecy	det
5	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj
10	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wanted	xcomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 gods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gods	det
13	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hidden	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 enemies	cc
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 enemies	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 enemies	nmod:poss
17	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gods	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	Amphitryon	the prophecy		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prophecy=Stimulus
2	want	past	Amphitryon not said here	Amphitryon's son		tree rules
3	hide not said to happen	participle	Amphitryon's son not said here		from the gods and Amphitryon's enemies	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from god=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The king ordered him away from court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 ordered	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 court	case
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order away	past	the king		him = he	court		away property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from court=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was worried Heracles would hurt people again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hurt	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	cop
3	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Heracles	amod
4	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurt	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · past	He				again	hurt property	tree rules

Option 4

He was afraid of Hera's rage at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 rage	case
5	Hera	Hera	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rage	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Hera	case
7	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of Hera's rage at Hera; afraid property	tree rules
2	rage		Hera					at Hera	nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent at=obl

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