Test 9 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 47: a poisoned ro…
Real talk, who taught Heracles to drive a chariot?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: teach, drive · To what, where: Real talk, Heracles, chariot
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taught | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taught | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 taught | nsubj |
| 5 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Heracles | Heracles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 taught | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drive | mark |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 taught | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chariot | det |
| 10 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 taught | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | Real talk | Heracles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | to-infinitive | Real talk not said here | a chariot | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme chariot=Trajectory |
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
the centaur Chiron of Mount Pelion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 centaur | det |
| 2 | centaur | centaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 centaur | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pelion | case |
| 5 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pelion | compound |
| 6 | Pelion | Pelion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Chiron | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the king's charioteer named Iolaus, who taught him in the fields
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 | 4 charioteer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taught | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 charioteer | acl |
| 6 | Iolaus | Iolaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taught | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 taught | nsubj |
| 9 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taught | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taught | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | the king's charioteer not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | the king's charioteer | Iolaus | the fields | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
Option 3
Eurystheus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eurystheus | Eurystheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Amphitryon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amphitryon | Amphitryon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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