Exam question 1 · Classical Mythology, Uranus and Gaea, part 2: Uranus hates…

Which pair of deities is identified as the progenitors of Oceanus, the ocean stream?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: identify · To what, where: pair

This is exam question 1 of lesson 496 «Classical Mythology, Uranus and Gaea, part 2: Uranus hates his fierce children, the Giants.» 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 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identified	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 deities	case
4	deities	deity	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 identified	aux:pass
6	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 progenitors	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 progenitors	det
9	progenitors	progenitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 identified	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Oceanus	case
11	Oceanus	Oceanus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 progenitors	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stream	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stream	det
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stream	compound
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Oceanus	appos
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identified	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	present · passive		which pair of deities				as the progenitors of Oceanus	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as progenitor=Attribute

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

Chaos and Nyx

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chaos	chaos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Nyx	cc
3	Nyx	Nyx	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Chaos	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Uranus and Gaea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Gaea	cc
3	Gaea	Gaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uranus	conj

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

Option 3

Pontus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pontus	pontus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Erebus and Aer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Erebus	erebus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Aer	cc
3	Aer	Aer	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Erebus	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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