Test 10 · ★ · Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sire…

did Ajax chat to him in Hades, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ajax · What happens: chat · To what, where: him, Hades

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 559 «Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sirens, a shipwreck, and Calypso's island» 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 chat	aux
2	Ajax	Ajax	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chat	nsubj
3	chat	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chat	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Hades	case
7	Hades	Hade	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 chat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 chat	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past · do-support	Ajax		him = he	Hades			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

yeah, he chatted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chatted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chatted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chatted	nsubj
4	chatted	chat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	past	he						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, he cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he ghosted him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ghosted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ghosted	nsubj
4	ghosted	ghost	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 ghosted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ghost	past	he	him = he					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme

Option 4

nah, he hugged him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hugged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hugged	nsubj
4	hugged	hug	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 hugged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	he	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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