Test 8 · ★ · Greek myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 49: Heracles wo…
Who got eaten by his own horses, then, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: own horses · What happens: eat
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 eaten | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | aux:pass |
| 3 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 horses | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horses | amod |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eaten | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 then | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 eaten | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eaten | vocative |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 eaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · passive | his own horses | then | mate vocative | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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
Diomedes, the king of the Bistonians, the one with the man-eating mares, innit
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diomedes | Diomedes | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Diomedes | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bistonians | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bistonians | det |
| 7 | Bistonians | Bistonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 king | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Diomedes | appos |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 mares | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mares | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eating | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 15 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 mares | amod |
| 16 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 18 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mares | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Diomedes, the king of the mares, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diomedes | Diomedes | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Diomedes | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mares | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mares | det |
| 7 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 king | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Diomedes | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Diomedes, the king of the Bistonians, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diomedes | Diomedes | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Diomedes | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bistonians | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bistonians | det |
| 7 | Bistonians | Bistonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 king | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Diomedes | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Diomedes, the Thracian king of the Bistonians, who fed his mares on strangers, proper
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diomedes | Diomedes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 proper | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | Thracian | Thracian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | compound |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Diomedes | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Bistonians | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bistonians | det |
| 8 | Bistonians | Bistonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 king | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fed | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fed | nsubj |
| 11 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Bistonians | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mares | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fed | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 strangers | case |
| 15 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Diomedes | punct |
| 17 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | the Bistonians | king's mares | strangers | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Recipient |
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