Test 3 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies…

Wait, what did Nessus try to do to Deianeira?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Nessus · What happens: wait, try, do · To what, where: Deianeira

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 546 «Greek Myths, The Death of Heracles, part 52: Heracles dies in a poisoned robe, and Deianeira takes her own life.» 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 try	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
5	Nessus	Nessus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 try	nsubj
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Deianeira	case
10	Deianeira	Deianeira	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past · do-support	Nessus		tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nessus not said here	Deianeira	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

drag her off to the wild mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 drag	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 drag	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mountains	amod
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 drag	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag off	imperative	you not said here	her = she		the wild mountains			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to mountain=Destination

Option 2

snatch her off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snatch	snatch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 snatch	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 snatch	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snatch off	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nick her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nick	nick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 nick	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 nick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick away	imperative	you not said here	her = she				away property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

drag her off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 drag	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 drag	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag off	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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