Test 10 · ★ · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…

Was Haemon pining for Antigone or was it just a fling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Haemon, Antigone · What happens: pine, be · To what, where: fling

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pining	aux
2	Haemon	Haemon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pining	nsubj
3	pining	pine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 Antigone	case
5	Antigone	antigone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pining	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 fling	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fling	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fling	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 fling	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fling	det
11	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pining	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pining	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pine	past · progressive	Haemon					for Antigone	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for antigone=Theme
2	is a	past	Antigone	a fling					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 · ✓ the right answer

He was betrothed to her and died for her

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	3 betrothed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 betrothed	aux:pass
3	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 betrothed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 betrothed	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	betroth	past · passive		He	her = she				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient
2	die	past						for her = she	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for she=Theme

Option 2

He had a fling with her in Argos

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fling	det
4	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fling	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Argos	case
8	Argos	Argos	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a fling		Argos		with her = she	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fling=Patient

Option 3

He was her cousin and sold out Thebes

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 cousin	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cousin	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cousin	nmod:poss
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Thebes	cc
6	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Thebes	amod
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 sold	compound:prt
8	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cousin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	her cousin and sold Thebes					tree rules
2	sell out	participle							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was betrothed to Ismene and died in battle

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	3 betrothed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 betrothed	aux:pass
3	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Ismene	case
5	Ismene	Ismene	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 betrothed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 betrothed	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 battle	case
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	betroth	past · passive		He	Ismene				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to ismene=Recipient
2	die	past						in battle	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in battle=Attribute

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