Test 7 · ★ · Greek myths, Alcmaeon and the Necklace, part 57: the Theba…
Dude, who was the Athens king who helped the Heraclidae?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, Athens king · What happens: be, help · To what, where: Athens king, Heraclidae
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 king | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dude | appos |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 helped | nsubj |
| 9 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Heraclidae | det |
| 11 | Heraclidae | Heraclidae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 helped | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Dude | the Athens king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | past | the Athens king | the Heraclidae | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heraclidae=Beneficiary |
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
King Menestheus, son of Erechtheus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Menestheus | Menestheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 King | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Erechtheus | case |
| 6 | Erechtheus | Erechtheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
King Pandion, son of Erechtheus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Pandion | Pandion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 King | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Erechtheus | case |
| 6 | Erechtheus | Erechtheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
King Demophoon, son of Theseus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Demophoon | Demophoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 King | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Theseus | case |
| 6 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
King Theseus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Theseus | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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