Test 12 · ★ · Greek myths, Odysseus, part 65: a visit to Hades, the Sire…

what's Achilles on about, moaning he's dead?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Achilles · What happens: be, moan · To what, where: Achilles

This is test 12 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 Achilles	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Achilles	cop
3	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 moaning	mark
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 moaning	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct
7	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Achilles	acl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dead	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moaning	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Achilles	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Achilles		tree rules
2	moan	gerund	Achilles not said here		about property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Achilles		dead 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

he'd be a sailor, not king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sailor	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sailor	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sailor	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sailor	det
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 king	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 king	advmod
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sailor	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	he	a sailor					tree rules

Option 2

he'd be a soldier, not king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 soldier	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 soldier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 soldier	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 king	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 king	advmod
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soldier	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	he	a soldier					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he'd be a day-labourer, not king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 labourer	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 labourer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 labourer	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 labourer	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 labourer	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
7	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 king	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 king	advmod
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 labourer	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	he	a day labourer					tree rules

Option 4

he'd be a shepherd, not king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shepherd	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 shepherd	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 shepherd	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shepherd	det
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 king	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 king	advmod
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shepherd	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	he	a shepherd					tree rules

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