Test 6 · ★ · Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wo…

Those birds with metal feathers, how did he sort them out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: sort out · To what, where: feathers

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 feathers	case
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feathers	compound
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 birds	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sort	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sort	advmod
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sort	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sort	nsubj
10	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 birds	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sort	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 sort	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 birds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	past · do-support	he	feathers = feather					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ✓ the right answer

He rattled brazen clappers from a hill, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rattled	nsubj
2	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clappers	amod
4	clappers	clapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rattled	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hill	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rattled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rattle	past	He	brazen clappers		a hill and mate			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clapper=Theme

Option 2

He stood on a hill and rattled brazen clappers loudly until the birds fled, innit, every one of them

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hill	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rattled	cc
7	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
8	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clappers	amod
9	clappers	clapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rattled	obj
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	7 rattled	advmod
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 fled	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fled	nsubj
14	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rattled	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 stood	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	He		a hill		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location
2	rattle	past	He not said here	brazen clappers		loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clapper=Theme
3	flee	past	the birds				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He scared them off with a bow, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scared	nsubj
2	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scared	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 scared	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bow	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bow	det
7	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	past	He	them = they				with a bow and mate	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 4

He rattled brazen clappers from the top of a hill and scared the birds off, mate, proper

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rattled	nsubj
2	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clappers	amod
4	clappers	clapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rattled	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rattled	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 scared	cc
12	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rattled	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 scared	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	12 scared	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mate	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scared	vocative
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 proper	punct
19	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rattled	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rattle	past	He	brazen clappers		the top of a hill			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clapper=Theme
2	scare off	past	He not said here	the birds				mate vocative	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

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