Test 8 · ★ · Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odysseus lands in Ithaca…

Bro, what did the maids do when the scruffy bloke woke up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: maids, scruffy bloke · What happens: do, wake up

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 560 «Greek heroes, Odysseus, part 66: Odysseus lands in Ithaca and hides as a beggar» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maids	det
6	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 woke	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bloke	det
10	scruffy	scruffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bloke	amod
11	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 woke	nsubj
12	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 woke	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past		Bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the maids		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wake up	past	the scruffy bloke		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

They ran off screaming across the field to the palace

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 screaming	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 screaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	They						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	gerund	They not said here		the palace	the field			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to palace=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They legged it

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 legged	nsubj
2	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 legged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	They	it					tree rules

Option 3

They laughed loudly

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They					loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They screamed

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 screamed	nsubj
2	screamed	scream	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	scream speech: express	past	They						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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