Test 7 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Trojan War, part 60: Odysseus frames Pala…

Who finished off Patroclus, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: finish off · To what, where: Patroclus

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 finished	nsubj
2	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 finished	compound:prt
4	Patroclus	Patroclus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 finished	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	4 Patroclus	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 real	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 finished	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 finished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish off	past		Patroclus					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Hector, the big Trojan dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dude	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dude	amod
5	Trojan	trojan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dude	amod
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hector	conj

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

Option 2

Hector, that's the big bad Trojan prince, Priam's son, no cap

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 prince	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 prince	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 prince	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 prince	amod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 prince	amod
8	Trojan	trojan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 prince	amod
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hector	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
11	Priam	Priam	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Priam	case
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hector	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hector	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the big bad Trojan prince					tree rules

Option 3

Hector, like, the Trojan captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
3	like	like	INTJ	_	1 Hector	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 captain	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 captain	det
6	Trojan	trojan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 captain	amod
7	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hector	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hector, that's the big bad Trojan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Trojan	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 Trojan	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Trojan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Trojan	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Trojan	amod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Trojan	amod
8	Trojan	Trojan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hector	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the big bad Trojan					tree rules

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