Test 3 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 51: Heracles brin…

wait so why did Heracles throw his mate Iphitus off a tower?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Heracles · What happens: wait, throw · To what, where: mate, tower

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 545 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Heracles, part 51: Heracles brings Cerberus up, kills Iphitus by accident, serves Omphale and takes revenge on two kings» 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	so	so	ADV	_	1 wait	advmod
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 throw	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 throw	aux
5	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 throw	nsubj
6	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mate	nmod:poss
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obj
9	Iphitus	Iphitus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mate	appos
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 tower	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tower	det
12	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past · do-support	Heracles	Heracles's mate		a tower			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mate=Theme off tower=Initial_Location

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

he went mad and thought his friend was a foe

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thought	cc
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foe	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 foe	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 foe	det
10	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	he		mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	he not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	his friend	a foe		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he was struck by Hera's madness and saw foes

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 struck	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	aux:pass
3	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 madness	case
5	Hera	Hera	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 madness	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Hera	case
7	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	conj
10	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past · passive	Hera's madness	he					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument
2	see	past	Hera's madness not said here	foes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foe=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he was having a madness fit and thought he was an enemy

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 having	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fit	det
5	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	compound
6	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 having	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 enemy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 enemy	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 enemy	det
12	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	he	a madness fit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	he not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	he	a enemy	tree rules

Option 4

he was drunk and angry

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 drunk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drunk	cop
3	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 angry	cc
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drunk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					drunk property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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