Test 3 · ★ · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…

Bro, Menoeceus just jumped off the walls? Mad!

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Menoeceus · What happens: jump off · To what, where: walls

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Bro, Menoeceus just jumped off the walls?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumped	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	Menoeceus	Menoeceus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 jumped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 jumped	advmod
5	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 walls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jumped	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 jumped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	past	Menoeceus	the walls				Bro vocative	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory

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: Mad!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Yeah, he stabbed himself on the walls so the oracle would be fulfilled and Thebes could be saved

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stabbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stabbed	nsubj
4	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 stabbed	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 walls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stabbed	obl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 fulfilled	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 oracle	det
11	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fulfilled	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 fulfilled	aux:pass
14	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stabbed	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saved	cc
16	Thebes	Thebes	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 saved	nsubj:pass
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 saved	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 saved	aux:pass
19	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fulfilled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stab	past	he	himself = he	the walls	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient on wall=Location
2	fulfil	would · passive		the oracle		tree rules
3	save	could · passive		Thebes		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

No, he was pushed off by Creon himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 pushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pushed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pushed	aux:pass
5	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 pushed	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Creon	case
8	Creon	Creon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pushed	obl:agent
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 pushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push off	past · passive	Creon	he					vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme himself=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he stabbed himself to save the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stabbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stabbed	nsubj
4	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 stabbed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 save	mark
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stabbed	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	he	himself = he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	save	to-infinitive	he not said here	the city					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he stabbed himself on the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stabbed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stabbed	nsubj
4	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 stabbed	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 walls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	he	himself = he		the walls			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient on wall=Location

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