--- title: what happened to Laocoon's kids, that's wild? — Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Gre… · tree and pragmatics description: what happened to Laocoon's kids, that's wild? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/556-pg22381-part62/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Gre…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/556-pg22381-part62/) / t7 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/556-pg22381-part62/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:t7:1 # text = what happened to Laocoon's kids, that's wild? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Laocoon Laocoon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Apollo blessed them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:t7:o1:1 # text = Apollo blessed them 1 Apollo Apollo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blessed bless VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 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 {#o2} they fled ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:t7:o2:1 # text = they fled 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 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 {#o3} they died ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:t7:o3:1 # text = they died 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 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 {#o4} snake attack, RIP ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:556-pg22381-part62:t7:o4:1 # text = snake attack, RIP 1 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 RIP rip INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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