Test 1 · ★ · Greek myths, Alcmaeon and the Necklace, part 57: the Theba…

Yo, did Alcmaeon really kill his own mum for a necklace?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alcmaeon · What happens: kill · To what, where: own mum

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 551 «Greek myths, Alcmaeon and the Necklace, part 57: the Thebans flee, Alcmaeon kills his mother, and the Heraclidae win at Athens» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 kill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	aux
4	Alcmaeon	Alcmaeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kill	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 kill	advmod
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mum	amod
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 necklace	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 necklace	det
12	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · do-support	Alcmaeon	Alcmaeon's own mum				for a necklace	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his mum took the bribe and got him to go to war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bribe	det
7	bribe	bribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 got	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 war	case
14	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	his mum	the bribe		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bribe=Theme
2	get	past	his mum not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	him = he not said here		war	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, his mum was killed by Argives before he could get the necklace and veil back from Thebes

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 killed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 killed	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 killed	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	aux:pass
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Argives	case
8	Argives	argive	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 killed	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 get	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 killed	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 necklace	det
14	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 veil	cc
16	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 necklace	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	12 get	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 Thebes	case
19	Thebes	Thebes	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · passive	Argives	his mum					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	get	could	he	the necklace and veil		Thebes			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme from thebes=Source

Option 3

Yeah, she took the bribe and sent him to Thebes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bribe	det
6	bribe	bribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Thebes	case
11	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	she	the bribe					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bribe=Theme
2	send	past	she not said here	him = he		Thebes			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to thebe=Destination

Option 4

Yeah, his mum took the necklace as a bribe from Polynices and then he went to war at Thebes

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 necklace	det
7	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 bribe	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bribe	det
10	bribe	bribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Polynices	case
12	Polynices	polynice	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bribe	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 war	case
18	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Thebes	case
20	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	his mum	the necklace				as a bribe from Polynices	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme as bribe=Attribute
2	go	past	he			Thebes	then	to war	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location

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