Test 2 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Theseus, part 54: Theseus loses…

Innit mad that Theseus forgot to swap the sails, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Theseus · What happens: forget, not swap · To what, where: sails

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mad	compound
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 forgot	mark
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 forgot	nsubj
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mad	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 swap	mark
7	swap	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forgot	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sails	det
9	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swap	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sails	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Theseus						tree rules
2	not swap	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	the sails and mate					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme

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

Nah, he did check them, but the wind changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 check	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 check	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 check	aux
5	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 check	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 changed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 changed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 changed	nsubj
11	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 check	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past · do-support	he	them = they					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	change	past	the wind						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that was a proper daft move, he never checked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 move	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 move	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 move	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 move	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 move	amod
7	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 move	amod
8	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 checked	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 move	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 checked	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 checked	advmod
12	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	a proper daft move					tree rules
2	not check	past	he						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, proper daft, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 daft	punct
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daft	amod
4	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daft	vocative

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

Option 4

Yeah, he was well careless and never looked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 careless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 careless	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 careless	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 careless	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 careless	advmod
6	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 looked	advmod
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 careless	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					careless, well property	tree rules
2	not look	past	he not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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