Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps…

Which relative of Medea's father taught her the art of enchantment?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: relative · What happens: teach · To what, where: art, Medea

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2082 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps Jason tame the brazen bulls and sow the dragon's teeth» 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 relative	det
2	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taught	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 father	case
4	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Medea	case
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 relative	nmod
7	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taught	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 art	det
10	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taught	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 enchantment	case
12	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 art	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 taught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	which relative of Medea's father	the art of enchantment	Medea				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient art=Topic

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

Calypso

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calypso	Calypso	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The witch who lived on the island beyond the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 witch	acl:relcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 island	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the witch			the island		beyond the sea	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Circe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Circe	circe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Her aunt, the sorceress Circe of Aeaea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sorceress	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sorceress	det
5	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 aunt	conj
6	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 aunt	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Aeaea	case
8	Aeaea	Aeaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Circe	nmod

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

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