Test 10 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Theseus, part 54: Theseus loses…

Yo, Helen was only nine when they nicked her, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Helen, they · What happens: be, nick · To what, where: nine, Helen

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 548 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Theseus, part 54: Theseus loses his throne and goes into exile» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 nine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	Helen	Helen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nine	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 nine	advmod
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 nicked	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 nicked	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nicked	nsubj
9	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nicked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nicked	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 nicked	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Helen	nine					tree rules
2	nick	past	they	Helen					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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

Nah, she was like twenty, mate, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 twenty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 twenty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 twenty	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 twenty	case
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twenty	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reckon	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 reckon	nsubj
11	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 twenty	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					like twenty; mate vocative	tree rules
2	reckon	present	I						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that's what the story says, dead young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 young	amod
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 what	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 older	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 older	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 older	cop
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, she was about twelve or so, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 twelve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 twelve	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 twelve	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 twelve	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 twelve	advmod
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 so	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	6 twelve	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 twelve	punct
10	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 twelve	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	twelve				about property	tree rules

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