Test 8 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Trojan War, part 60: Odysseus frames Pala…

Why did Achilles swear he'd wait to do the funeral?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Achilles · What happens: swear, wait, do · To what, where: funeral

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 swear	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swear	aux
3	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swear	nsubj
4	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wait	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	aux
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swear	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wait	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 funeral	det
11	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 swear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	swear	past · do-support	Achilles		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wait	would	Achilles		tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	Achilles not said here	the funeral	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=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

He needed revenge on Hector, fr

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 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Hector	case
5	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fr	punct
7	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hector	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	He	revenge		Hector and fr			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme

Option 2

He wanted to kill Hector first

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 kill	mark
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 kill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	Hector				first property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hector=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted revenge on Hector first

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Hector	case
5	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	revenge		Hector		first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme

Option 4

He was so sad

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	4 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 sad	advmod
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					sad property	tree rules

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