Test 2 · ★ · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…

Wait, so the little baby at Nemea got eaten by a snake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, snake · What happens: wait, eat · To what, where: little baby

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eaten	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 eaten	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 baby	amod
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	nsubj:pass
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Nemea	case
8	Nemea	Nemea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 baby	nmod
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eaten	aux:pass
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	advcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 snake	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 snake	det
13	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eaten	obl
14	?	?	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	eat	past · passive	a snake	the little baby at Nemea					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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

Yeah, while they were off looking for a spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 looking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 looking	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 looking	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looking	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looking	aux
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 were	compound:prt
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 spring	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spring	det
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	they				spring		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

No, the Argives threw him in a river at Nemea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Argives	det
4	Argives	Argive	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 threw	nsubj
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 threw	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Nemea	case
11	Nemea	Nemea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the Argives	him = he		a river		at Nemea	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in river=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, while the Argives were off hunting for water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 hunting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hunting	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 hunting	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Argives	det
5	Argives	Argive	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 hunting	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 off	cop
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 Argives	flat
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund	the Argives					for water	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for water=Theme

Option 4

No, the baby was actually kidnapped by Hypsipile's people and the snake came later

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 kidnapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kidnapped	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kidnapped	aux:pass
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 kidnapped	advmod
7	kidnapped	kidnap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 came	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 people	case
9	Hypsipile	Hypsipile	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 people	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Hypsipile	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kidnapped	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 snake	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snake	det
14	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 people	conj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kidnap	past · passive	Hypsipile's people and the snake	the baby				actually property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	come	past						late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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