Test 13 · ★ · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…

Okay, but who was the blind old seer? Was he like a total legend?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be · To what, where: blind old seer

This is test 13 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Okay, but who was the blind old seer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	9 seer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 seer	cc
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 seer	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seer	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seer	det
7	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seer	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seer	amod
9	seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 seer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the blind old seer					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.

Sentence 2: Was he like a total legend?

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	6 legend	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 legend	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 legend	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 legend	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legend	amod
6	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 legend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					like a total legend	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tiresias, the old Argive seer who had lived for a hundred years in exile on Lemnos

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiresias	Tiresias	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seer	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seer	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seer	amod
5	Argive	argive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seer	amod
6	seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tiresias	appos
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	aux
9	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 seer	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hundred	det
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lived	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 exile	case
15	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 Lemnos	case
17	Lemnos	Lemnos	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 exile	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past · perfect	the old Argive seer			exile on Lemnos	year		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in exile=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tiresias, who was over a hundred years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiresias	Tiresias	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 old	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 old	cop
5	over	over	ADV	_	7 hundred	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 old	obl:unmarked
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tiresias	amod

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

Option 3

Teiresias, who was sent for by Creon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teiresias	Teiresias	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sent	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Teiresias	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	5 sent	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Creon	case
8	Creon	Creon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive	Creon	Teiresias					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

Tiresias, who was a famous seer in Thebes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiresias	Tiresias	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seer	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 seer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seer	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 seer	det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seer	amod
7	seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tiresias	appos
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Thebes	case
9	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Tiresias	a famous seer		Thebes			tree rules

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