Test 10 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Trojan War, part 60: Odysseus frames Pala…

When Hector saw Achilles coming, what did he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hector, Achilles · What happens: see, come, do · To what, where: Achilles

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 554 «Greek Myths, The Trojan War, part 60: Odysseus frames Palamedes, Achilles sulks, Patroclus dies, Achilles chases Hector» 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 saw	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 coming	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past	Hector	Achilles	tree rules
2	come	gerund	Achilles not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past · do-support	Hector		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Bolted straight for the city gates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	1 Bolted	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 gates	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gates	det
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gates	compound
6	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bolted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	participle						for the city gates; straight property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He tried to hide inside the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hide	mark
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here			the gate			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside gate=Location

Option 3

He ran off towards the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 walls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	He			the walls			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards wall=Destination

Option 4

He fled, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	He	bro					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bro=Initial_Location

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