Test 11 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Tr…

wait what made Orestes run to Delphi for help

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Orestes · What happens: wait, make, run · To what, where: Delphi

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 557 «Myths of Greece and Rome, The Return of the Greeks from Troy, part 63: the heroes sail home, and Odysseus meets Polyphemus» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	ccomp
4	Orestes	Orestes	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 run	nsubj
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Delphi	case
7	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 help	case
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	make	past				tree rules
3	run	infinitive	Orestes	Delphi	for help	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to delphi=Result

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

the Furies chasing him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Furies	det
2	Furies	fury	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chasing	nsubj
3	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund	the Furies	him = he					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

a plague sent by Apollo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plague	det
2	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 plague	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Apollo	case
5	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		a plague not said here				by Apollo	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the ghost of Agamemnon demanding vengeance from his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Agamemnon	case
4	Agamemnon	Agamemnon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ghost	nmod
5	demanding	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ghost	acl
6	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 demanding	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 son	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 demanding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	gerund	the ghost of Agamemnon not said here	vengeance				from Agamemnon's son	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme vengeance=Precondition from son=Source
2	ghost			Agamemnon					nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

his guilt for killing his mother and Aegisthus, which the gods had marked on his brow

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 guilt	nmod:poss
2	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marked	nsubj:pass
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 killing	mark
4	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 guilt	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killing	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Aegisthus	cc
8	Aegisthus	Aegisthus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mother	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gods	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 gods	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gods	det
12	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mother	conj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 marked	aux
14	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 brow	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brow	nmod:poss
17	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kill	gerund	his guilt not said here	his mother and Aegisthus and the gods		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
2	god		his mother and Aegisthus and the gods			tree rules
3	mark	past · perfect · passive		his guilt	Aegisthus's brow	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on brow=Destination

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