Exam question 4 · Classical Mythology, Uranus and Gaea, part 2: Uranus hates…

By what collective designation were the three Giants known in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, know · To what, where: three Giants, passage

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	collective	collective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 designation	amod
4	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Giants	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Giants	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Giants	nummod
8	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 what	nsubj
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Giants	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 passage	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 passage	det
12	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 known	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the three Giants					tree rules
2	know	participle		the three Giants not said here		the passage			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

the Hecatoncheires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hecatoncheires	det
2	Hecatoncheires	Hecatoncheires	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the Cyclopeans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cyclopeans	det
2	Cyclopeans	Cyclopean	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the Giants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giants	det
2	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the Hyperboreans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hyperboreans	det
2	Hyperboreans	Hyperborean	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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