Test 2 · ★ · Greek myths, Alcmaeon and the Necklace, part 57: the Theba…

Bruh, why did the Argives even go to Thebes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Argives · What happens: do, go · To what, where: Thebes

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Argives	det
6	Argives	Argive	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Thebes	case
10	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	go	present	the Argives			Thebes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thebe=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

To take the city and loot it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 city	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 loot	cc
6	loot	loot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 take	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		the city					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
2	loot	infinitive		city					tree rules

Option 2

To hunt for the necklace there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hunt	mark
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 necklace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 necklace	det
5	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	obl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 hunt	advmod

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

Option 3

To get revenge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		revenge					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer revenge=Stimulus

Option 4

For the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 gold	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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