Test 1 · ★ · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…

Dude, did you get why Polynices gave Eriphyle that sick necklace?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Polynices, that · What happens: get, give, necklace · To what, where: Dude, Eriphyle

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 550 «Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part 56: the Argives fight for Thebes and the heroes die» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 gave	advmod
7	Polynices	polynice	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	advcl
9	Eriphyle	Eriphyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gave	iobj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 necklace	nsubj
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 necklace	amod
12	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	you	Dude		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	give	past	Polynices		Eriphyle	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eriphyle=Theme
3	necklace		that			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

To bribe her into a fight with the gods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bribe	mark
2	bribe	bribe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bribe	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 fight	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fight	det
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bribe	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 gods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gods	det
9	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bribe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	to-infinitive		her = she				into a fight result; with the gods	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Patient into fight=Result

Option 2

To make her convince her husband to join

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	convince	convince	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 convince	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 join	mark
8	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 convince	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		her = she		tree rules
2	convince	infinitive	her = she not said here		her husband	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Patient clause=Result
3	join	to-infinitive	her = she not said here			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

So she'd nag her son into the army and then come to war herself

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 nag	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nag	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 nag	aux
4	nag	nag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nag	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 army	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 army	det
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nag	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nag	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 war	case
14	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nag	would	she	her son		the army			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent son=Patient into army=Eventuality
2	come	infinitive	she not said here	herself = she		war	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To make her talk her hubby into joining the war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hubby	nmod:poss
6	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obj
7	into	into	SCONJ	_	8 joining	mark
8	joining	join	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 talk	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 war	det
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 joining	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		her = she	tree rules
2	talk	infinitive	her = she not said here	her hubby	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hubby=Patient
3	join	gerund	her = she not said here	the war	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient

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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