Test 12 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Theseus, part 54: Theseus loses…

Wait, who was Academus, then, a legend or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Academus

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Academus	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 Academus	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Academus	cop
5	Academus	Academus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 legend	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 legend	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 legend	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 legend	det
10	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 legend	conj
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	is a	past		Academus					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 · ← Mova's choice

He was a local who helped the Amazons find Theseus

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	4 local	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 local	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 local	det
4	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 helped	nsubj
6	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 local	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Amazons	det
8	Amazons	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 find	nsubj
9	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 local	parataxis
10	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		local property	tree rules
2	help	past				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	find	present	the Amazons	Theseus		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theseus=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was a citizen who told the Dioscuri where Helen was

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	4 citizen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 citizen	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 citizen	det
4	citizen	citizen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 citizen	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dioscuri	det
8	Dioscuri	Dioscuri	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 Helen	advmod
10	Helen	Helen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 citizen	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a citizen					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	a citizen	Helen	the Dioscuri				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dioscuri=Recipient

Option 3

Some Athenian bloke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 bloke	det
2	Athenian	Athenian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bloke	compound
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

He was a soldier who spied on Theseus for the Lapiths

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	4 soldier	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soldier	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 spied	nsubj
6	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soldier	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Theseus	case
8	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spied	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 Lapiths	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lapiths	det
11	Lapiths	lapith	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a soldier					tree rules
2	spy	past	a soldier			Theseus		for the Lapiths	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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