Test 6 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Trojan War, part 60: Odysseus frames Pala…

Did Patroclus listen when Achilles told him to chill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Patroclus, Achilles · What happens: listen, tell, chill · To what, where: Patroclus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	aux
2	Patroclus	Patroclus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 listen	nsubj
3	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 told	advmod
5	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chill	mark
9	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	listen	past · do-support	Patroclus		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Achilles	Patroclus	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	chill not said to happen	to-infinitive	Achilles not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nah, he ignored him and charged right in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ignored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignored	nsubj
4	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignored	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 charged	cc
7	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ignored	conj
8	right	right	ADV	_	7 charged	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	7 charged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	he	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	charge	past	he not said here					right property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, he went too far and got smoked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 went	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	past	he	far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	he not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	smoke	participle	he not said here		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he ran off and got killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
8	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	run off	past	he	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	he not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	kill	participle	he not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nope, he kept charging and got killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
8	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	past	he	tree rules
2	charge	gerund	he not said here	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	he not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	kill	participle	he not said here	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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