Exam question 1 · The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone…
Which object did Theseus discover beneath the stone after he had removed it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Theseus · What happens: discover, remove · To what, where: object
This is exam question 1 of lesson 2044 «The Heroes, Theseus, part 3: Theseus lifts the great stone, finds his father's sword and sandals, and sets out for Athens» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discover | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discover | aux |
| 4 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 discover | nsubj |
| 5 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discover | obl |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 removed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 removed | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 removed | aux |
| 12 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 discover | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 removed | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 discover | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · do-support | which object | beneath the stone | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | remove | past · perfect | Theseus | object | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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
Old sandals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sandals | amod |
| 2 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A jewelled spear and a pair of gloves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spear | det |
| 2 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spear | amod |
| 3 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pair | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spear | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gloves | case |
| 8 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pair | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jewell | participle | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A golden-hilted sword and a pair of sandals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hilted | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 golden | punct |
| 4 | hilted | hilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sword | amod |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pair | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sword | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sandals | case |
| 10 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hilt | participle | tree rules |
Option 4
A bronze helmet and a silver shield set
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 helmet | det |
| 2 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helmet | compound |
| 3 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 set | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 set | amod |
| 7 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | compound |
| 8 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helmet | conj |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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