Test 7 · ★ · Berens' Myths and Legends, The Seven Against Thebes, part…
Whoa, Alcmaeon killed Laodamas, right? That's pure rage
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whoa, That · What happens: kill, be · To what, where: Laodamas, pure rage
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Whoa, Alcmaeon killed Laodamas, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whoa | Whoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whoa | punct |
| 3 | Alcmaeon | Alcmaeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Laodamas | Laodamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Laodamas | punct |
| 7 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 killed | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Whoa | Laodamas | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laodamas=Theme |
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: That's pure rage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 rage | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rage | cop |
| 3 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rage | amod |
| 4 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | pure rage | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, Laodamas died by his hand in battle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | Laodamas | Laodamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 battle | case |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Laodamas | by Laodamas's hand; in battle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in battle=Attribute |
Option 2
Nah, Laodamas survived and Alcmaeon was the one who died later in a grove of Apollo
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 survived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Laodamas | Laodamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 survived | nsubj |
| 4 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 6 | Alcmaeon | Alcmaeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 survived | conj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 died | nsubj |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | acl:relcl |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 died | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 grove | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 grove | det |
| 15 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Apollo | case |
| 17 | Apollo | Apollo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 grove | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | past | Laodamas | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Alcmaeon | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | past | the one | in a grove of Apollo; late property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in grove=Attribute |
Option 3
Nah, Laodamas killed Alcmaeon instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 killed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Laodamas | Laodamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Alcmaeon | Alcmaeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obj |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 killed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Laodamas | Alcmaeon | instead property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcmaeon=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, Alcmaeon speared him at the gates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 speared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speared | punct |
| 3 | Alcmaeon | Alcmaeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speared | nsubj |
| 4 | speared | spear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speared | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 gates | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gates | det |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 speared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spear | past | Alcmaeon | him = he | the gates | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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