Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C…
By what designation was the monarch who received the Athenian youths at his palace known?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: monarch · What happens: be, receive, know · To what, where: monarch, Athenian youths, palace
This is exam question 3 of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 designation | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 designation | nsubj |
| 3 | designation | designation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monarch | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 monarch | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monarch | det |
| 6 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 received | nsubj |
| 8 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 monarch | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youths | det |
| 10 | Athenian | Athenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 youths | compound |
| 11 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 received | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 received | obl |
| 15 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 palace | acl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 monarch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the monarch | by designation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the monarch | the Athenian youths | his palace | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent youth=Theme at palace=Location | |||
| 3 | know | participle | his palace not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 · ✓ the right answer
King Minos
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Minos | Minos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the king of the great palace of Crete
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 palace | amod |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Crete | case |
| 8 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Prince Theseus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Theseus | compound |
| 2 | Theseus | Theseus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
King Aegeus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Aegeus | Aegeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
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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