Test 2 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Trojan War, part 60: Odysseus frames Pala…

Wait, so why did Palamedes just sit there and say nothing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Palamedes · What happens: wait, sit, say · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 sit	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sit	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sit	aux
6	Palamedes	Palamedes	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sit	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 sit	advmod
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sit	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 say	cc
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 say	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past · do-support	Palamedes		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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

Nah, just because

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 because	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 because	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cause he knew it was hopeless, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	3 knew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hopeless	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hopeless	cop
6	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it					hopeless property	tree rules

Option 3

Dunno, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bro	punct
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dunno	vocative

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

Option 4

He figured nobody would believe him

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 figured	nsubj
2	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 believe	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	aux
5	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 figured	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	He						tree rules
2	believe	would	nobody	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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