Test 1 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Trojan War, part 61: Hector dies, Achille…

yo did Achilles really drag Hector round the walls like three times, no cap?

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

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 555 «Greek Myths, The Trojan War, part 61: Hector dies, Achilles drags his body, Penthesilea falls, Achilles dies» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	2 did	discourse
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drag	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 drag	advmod
5	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drag	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drag	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 times	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walls	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walls	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	drag	present	Achilles	Hector				round the walls like three times and no cap	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hector=Theme

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 only dragged him once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dragged	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 dragged	advmod
5	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dragged	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 dragged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	he	him = he				once property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he went around the whole city like a hundred times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	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	around	around	ADP	_	8 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 city	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 city	amod
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 times	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			the whole city	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around city=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, three laps, straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 laps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 laps	nummod
4	laps	lap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laps	punct
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 laps	advmod

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

Option 4

nah, he dragged him around the walls for days and days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	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 dragged	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 walls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dragged	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dragged	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 days	cc
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 days	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	he	him = he		the walls	day		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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