Test 7 · ★ · Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wo…

what happened to Laocoon's kids, that's wild?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: kids

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 kids	case
4	Laocoon	Laocoon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kids	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Laocoon	case
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 wild	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wild	cop
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to Laocoon's kids	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Laocoon's kids	Laocoon's kids not said here				wild 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

Apollo blessed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blessed	nsubj
2	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blessed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	past	Apollo	them = they					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

they fled

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 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

they died

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 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	they						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

snake attack, RIP

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attack	compound
2	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 attack	punct
4	RIP	rip	INTJ	_	2 attack	discourse

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

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