Test 7 · ★ · Greek Myths, Heracles, part 48: a hero's choice, a war, an…

Lol, what did the crab do to the Hydra?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crab · What happens: do

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crab	det
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Hydra	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Hydra	det
10	Hydra	Hydra	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the crab					to the Hydra	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

bit his legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past		his legs					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 2

crawled up and bit his feet and ankles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 crawled	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bit	cc
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 crawled	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bit	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ankles	cc
8	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl up	past							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bite	past		his feet and ankles					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

bit his feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 feet	nmod:poss
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past		his feet					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

grabbed his legs and pinched his toes hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 grabbed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pinched	cc
5	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 grabbed	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 toes	nmod:poss
7	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pinched	obj
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 pinched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past		his legs					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
2	pinch	past		his toes				hard property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Theme

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