Test 12 · ★ · Greek Myths, The Trojan War, part 61: Hector dies, Achille…

did Ajax go mad over losing the armour, that's kinda extreme?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ajax, that · What happens: go, lose, be · To what, where: armour

This is test 12 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	Ajax	Ajax	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp
5	over	over	SCONJ	_	6 losing	mark
6	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mad	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 armour	det
8	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 losing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 extreme	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 extreme	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 extreme	cop
12	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	13 extreme	advmod
13	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Ajax		mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	gerund	Ajax not said here	the armour		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Eventuality
3	is	present	that		extreme, kinda property	tree rules

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 went mad but lived on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	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	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 lived	cc
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
8	on	on	ADV	_	7 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live on	past	he not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nah, he went insane and later wandered the world for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	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	insane	insane	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wandered	cc
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 wandered	advmod
8	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wandered	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wandered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					insane property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wander	past	he not said here	the world			year	late property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he lost his mind and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mind	nmod:poss
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 died	cc
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	past	he	his mind	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Eventuality
2	die	past	he not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	mind		his = he		nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

yeah, he went totally mad, slaughtered a flock of sheep, and then killed himself in shame

The tree, 16 words

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	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slaughtered	punct
8	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 flock	det
10	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slaughtered	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 sheep	case
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flock	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 killed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 killed	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 killed	advmod
16	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 killed	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 shame	case
19	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he				mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slaughter	past	he not said here	a flock of sheep				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient
3	kill	past	he not said here	himself = he	shame	then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

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