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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?

nsubjpunctnsubjobjpunctdiscoursepunctrootWhoaPROPN,PUNCTAlcmaeonPROPNkilledVERBLaodamasPROPN,PUNCTrightINTJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhoaWhoaPROPNNumber=Sing4 killednsubj
2,,PUNCT_1 Whoapunct
3AlcmaeonAlcmaeonPROPNNumber=Sing4 killednsubj
4killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5LaodamasLaodamasPROPNNumber=Sing4 killedobj
6,,PUNCT_5 Laodamaspunct
7rightrightINTJ_4 killeddiscourse
8??PUNCT_4 killedpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1killpastWhoaLaodamasvn 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

nsubjcopamodrootThatPRON'sAUXpureADJrageNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 ragensubj
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 ragecop
3purepureADJDegree=Pos4 rageamod
4ragerageNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentThatpure ragetree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, Laodamas died by his hand in battle

discoursepunctnsubjcasenmod:possoblcaseoblrootYeahINTJ,PUNCTLaodamasPROPNdiedVERBbyADPhisPRONhandNOUNinADPbattleNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YeahyeahINTJ_4 dieddiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Yeahpunct
3LaodamasLaodamasPROPNNumber=Sing4 diednsubj
4dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5bybyADP_7 handcase
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 handnmod:poss
7handhandNOUNNumber=Sing4 diedobl
8ininADP_9 battlecase
9battlebattleNOUNNumber=Sing4 diedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1diepastLaodamasby Laodamas's hand; in battlevn 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
discoursepunctnsubjccnsubjcopdetconjnsubjacl:relcladvmodcasedetoblcasenmodrootNahINTJ,PUNCTLaodamasPROPNsurvivedVERBandCCONJAlcmaeonPROPNwasAUXtheDEToneNOUNwhoPRONdiedVERBlaterADVinADPaDETgroveNOUNofADPApolloPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NahnahINTJ_4 surviveddiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Nahpunct
3LaodamasLaodamasPROPNNumber=Sing4 survivednsubj
4survivedsurviveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5andandCCONJ_9 onecc
6AlcmaeonAlcmaeonPROPNNumber=Sing9 onensubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 onecop
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 onedet
9oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing4 survivedconj
10whowhoPRONPronType=Rel11 diednsubj
11dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 oneacl:relcl
12laterlateADVDegree=Cmp11 diedadvmod
13ininADP_15 grovecase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 grovedet
15grovegroveNOUNNumber=Sing11 diedobl
16ofofADP_17 Apollocase
17ApolloApolloPROPNNumber=Sing15 grovenmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1survivepastLaodamasvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2is apastAlcmaeonthe onetree rules
3diepastthe onein a grove of Apollo; late propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in grove=Attribute

Option 3

Nah, Laodamas killed Alcmaeon instead

discoursepunctnsubjobjadvmodrootNahINTJ,PUNCTLaodamasPROPNkilledVERBAlcmaeonPROPNinsteadADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NahnahINTJ_4 killeddiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Nahpunct
3LaodamasLaodamasPROPNNumber=Sing4 killednsubj
4killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5AlcmaeonAlcmaeonPROPNNumber=Sing4 killedobj
6insteadinsteadADV_4 killedadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1killpastLaodamasAlcmaeoninstead propertyvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcmaeon=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, Alcmaeon speared him at the gates

discoursepunctnsubjobjcasedetoblrootYeahINTJ,PUNCTAlcmaeonPROPNspearedVERBhimPRONatADPtheDETgatesNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YeahyeahINTJ_4 speareddiscourse
2,,PUNCT_4 spearedpunct
3AlcmaeonAlcmaeonPROPNNumber=Sing4 spearednsubj
4spearedspearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 spearedobj
6atatADP_8 gatescase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 gatesdet
8gatesgateNOUNNumber=Plur4 spearedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1spearpastAlcmaeonhim = hethe gatesvn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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