Test 11 · ★ · Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wo…

Did Laomedon keep his promise to Apollo and Poseidon, then?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Laomedon · What happens: keep, promise · To what, where: promise

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 543 «Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wounds Chiron, hunts the boar and tackles the stables and birds» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
2	Laomedon	Laomedon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 promise	nmod:poss
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Apollo	case
7	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 promise	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Poseidon	cc
9	Poseidon	Poseidon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Apollo	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 then	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 keep	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Laomedon	Laomedon's promise			then	to Apollo and Poseidon	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	promise		Laomedon					to Apollo and Poseidon	nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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

Nah, he tricked them out of the horses, dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 horses	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 horses	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horses	det
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tricked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horses	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	them = they				out the horses	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he cheated them out of their reward, dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cheated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheated	nsubj
4	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheated	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 reward	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 reward	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 reward	nmod:poss
9	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reward	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past	he	them = they		their reward			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source
2	reward		their = they						nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he gave them the horses, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horses	det
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proper	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	the horses	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient horse=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he refused and sent them away, dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dead	punct
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 refused	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	send away	past	he not said here	them = they				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/543-pg22381-part49/t11/