Test 3 · ★ · Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, an…

Mate, what did Heracles do to those heralds, proper savage?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Heracles · What happens: do · To what, where: Mate

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 heralds	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 heralds	det
9	heralds	herald	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 savage	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 savage	amod
12	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heralds	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Heracles	Mate				to that heralds and proper savage	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

tied them up and burned their faces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tied	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 tied	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 burned	cc
5	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 tied	conj
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 faces	nmod:poss
7	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past		them = they					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	burn	past		their faces					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme

Option 2

cut off their hands and sent them back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 cut	compound:prt
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 cut	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cut	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	their hands					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality
2	send back	past	you not said here	hands = hand					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

sent them home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		them = they				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

mutilated them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mutilated	mutilate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 mutilated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mutilate	past		them = they					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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