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

Toward which of his Giant offspring did Uranus express his feelings in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uranus · What happens: express · To what, where: feelings, passage

This is exam question 2 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	Toward	toward	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 express	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 offspring	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 offspring	nmod:poss
5	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 offspring	amod
6	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 express	obl
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 express	aux
8	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 express	nsubj
9	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feelings	nmod:poss
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 express	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 express	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 express	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	express	past · do-support	Uranus	Uranus's feelings		the passage		of his Giant offspring	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme of offspring=Initial_Location

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

abhorrence toward the Giants and their brute strength alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	abhorrence	abhorrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	toward	toward	ADP	_	4 Giants	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giants	det
4	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 abhorrence	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 strength	cc
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 strength	nmod:poss
7	brute	brute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strength	amod
8	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 abhorrence	conj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 strength	advmod

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

Option 2

deep fear and abhorrence toward his own children and the Hecatoncheires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fear	amod
2	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 abhorrence	cc
4	abhorrence	abhorrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fear	conj
5	toward	toward	ADP	_	8 children	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 children	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fear	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Hecatoncheires	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hecatoncheires	det
11	Hecatoncheires	Hecatoncheires	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 children	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

abhorrence toward the Giants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	abhorrence	abhorrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	toward	toward	ADP	_	4 Giants	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giants	det
4	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 abhorrence	nmod

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

Option 4

love for the Hecatoncheires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 Hecatoncheires	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hecatoncheires	det
4	Hecatoncheires	Hecatoncheires	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 love	nmod

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

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