Test 6 · ★ · Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wo…

why'd they drag that horse into the city, was it cringe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, horse · What happens: drag, be · To what, where: horse, city, cringe

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 556 «Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wooden horse and enter Troy» 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 drag	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 drag	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drag	nsubj
4	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cringe	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 horse	mark
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drag	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drag	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drag	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cringe	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cringe	nsubj
13	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 cringe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	present	they	horse		the city			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	is a	past	horse	cringe					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 · ✓ the right answer

they thought it was a gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gift	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gift	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gift	det
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a gift					tree rules

Option 2

they believed it was holy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 holy	cop
5	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 believed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	they						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it					holy property	tree rules

Option 3

they wanted the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wood	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the wood					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wood=Theme

Option 4

a trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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