Exam question 4 · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…

Which of the following accurately identifies the cause of the swollen river that impeded Jason's passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: swollen river, Jason · What happens: follow, identify, impede, cause, pass · To what, where: cause, passage, swollen river

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cause	det
8	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
11	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 river	amod
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cause	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 impeded	nsubj
14	impeded	impede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 river	acl:relcl
15	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 passage	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Jason	case
17	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 impeded	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the cause of the swollen river	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
3	impede	past	the swollen river	Jason's passage		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer passage=Eventuality
4	cause			the swollen river		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
5	pass		Jason			nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Heavy rains and the melting of the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rains	amod
2	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 melting	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 melting	det
5	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rains	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melting	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 sides	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sides	det
11	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rains	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Olympus	case
13	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Olympus	compound
14	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sides	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt			the snow					nom melting «process transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A broken dam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dam	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dam	amod
3	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Floods from a dragon's breath and the hot springs of the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	6 breath	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breath	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dragon	case
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Floods	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 springs	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 springs	det
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 springs	amod
10	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Floods	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mountains	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mountains	det
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 springs	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Melting ice and a broken bridge in the high valleys near Thessaly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melting	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ice	amod
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bridge	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bridge	amod
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ice	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 valleys	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valleys	det
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 valleys	amod
10	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ice	nmod
11	near	near	ADP	_	12 Thessaly	case
12	Thessaly	Thessaly	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 valleys	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2076-pg976-part35/e4/