Test 13 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Labours of Heracles, part 50: Heracles sa…
Innit, Heracles beat the giant with a dog, right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: beat · To what, where: giant
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| 3 | Heracles | Heracles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beat | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 right | punct |
| 11 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 beat | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | Innit | the giant | with a dog | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent giant=Patient with dog=Instrument |
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 only beat the master, not the dog.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 beat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 beat | advmod |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 master | det |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dog | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dog | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 master | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | he | the master and the dog | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location master=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he beat the dog and then the master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 beat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 master | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 master | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 master | det |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | he | the dog | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he beat the dog first and then the giant master in a fight.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 beat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 beat | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 master | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 master | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 master | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 master | amod |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fight | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fight | det |
| 15 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 master | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | he | the dog | first property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, he beat the dog, then the herdsman, then the giant master of the cattle.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 beat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 herdsman | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 herdsman | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 herdsman | det |
| 10 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 master | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 master | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 master | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 master | amod |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 herdsman | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cattle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cattle | det |
| 18 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 master | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | he | the dog | the herdsman obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme |
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