Test 2 · ★ · Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wo…

Wait, so the centaur Chiron was his mate and he still shot him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, centaur · What happens: wait, be, shoot · To what, where: mate, Chiron

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 mate	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 centaur	det
5	centaur	centaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mate	nsubj
6	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 centaur	appos
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mate	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mate	nmod:poss
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	vocative
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shot	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shot	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 shot	advmod
13	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shot	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the centaur	centaur's mate		tree rules
3	shoot	past	centaur	Chiron	still	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

Nah, he shot him by accident, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shot	nsubj
4	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shot	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 accident	case
7	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shot	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accident	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	he	him = he				by accident and mate	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme by accident=Destination

Option 2

Nah, on purpose, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 purpose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 purpose	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 purpose	case
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	vocative

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, by accident, with a poisoned dart, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 accident	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 accident	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 accident	case
4	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dart	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 dart	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dart	det
8	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dart	amod
9	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accident	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dart	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, by mistake with an arrow, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mistake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mistake	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 mistake	case
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 arrow	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 arrow	det
7	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mistake	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mistake	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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