Test 11 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 50: Heracles sa…

Lowkey, why was Eurystheus so mad at Heracles?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: Heracles

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 544 «Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 50: Heracles saves a maiden, wins the oxen and apples, and enters the Underworld» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 mad	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mad	cop
5	Eurystheus	Eurystheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mad	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Heracles	case
9	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mad	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lowkey			Heracles		mad property	tree rules

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 wanted him to die on a hard task

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 die	mark
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 task	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 task	det
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 task	amod
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	him = he					tree rules
2	die not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here			a hard task			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

He was jealous because Heracles was stronger and had been sent by Zeus.

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	3 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 stronger	mark
5	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stronger	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stronger	cop
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 jealous	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sent	aux:pass
11	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stronger	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 Zeus	case
13	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jealous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	He	jealous property	tree rules
2	is	past	Heracles	strong property	tree rules
3	send	past · perfect · passive	Zeus		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He wanted the apples for himself.

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apples	det
4	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wanted	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the apples				for himself = he	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot apple=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted Heracles to die on one of the hardest tasks of all.

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 die	mark
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 die	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 tasks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tasks	det
10	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 tasks	amod
11	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 tasks	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	Heracles					tree rules
2	die not said to happen	to-infinitive	Heracles not said here					on one of the hardest tasks of all	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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