Test 12 · ★ · Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, an…

Sick story, but why did Heracles do ten tasks?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Heracles · What happens: do · To what, where: ten tasks

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 542 «Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, and the first labours» 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	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 story	amod
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 do	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
7	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 story	acl:relcl
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 tasks	nummod
10	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Heracles	ten tasks					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality

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

because Hera commanded it to him at birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 commanded	mark
2	Hera	Hera	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 commanded	nsubj
3	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 commanded	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 commanded	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 birth	case
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 commanded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	command	past	Hera	it	him = he	birth			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme at birth=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to win a kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kingdom	det
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		a kingdom					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Eventuality

Option 3

to repay his debt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 repay	mark
2	repay	repay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 debt	nmod:poss
4	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repay	to-infinitive		his debt					vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent debt=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to end his servitude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 end	mark
2	end	end	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 servitude	nmod:poss
4	servitude	servitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	to-infinitive		his servitude					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality servitude=Eventuality

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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