Exam question 2 · Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus…

Identify the object with which Rhea substituted the infant Zeus.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Rhea · What happens: identify, substitute · To what, where: object, infant Zeus

This is exam question 2 of lesson 497 «Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus swallows his children, and Rhea saves Zeus with a stone» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 substituted	obl
6	Rhea	Rhea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 substituted	nsubj
7	substituted	substitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 object	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Zeus	det
9	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Zeus	amod
10	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 substituted	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	substitute	past	Rhea	the infant Zeus				with the object	vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme zeus=Location with which=Co-Theme

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

A stone wrapped in baby-clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stone	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 clothes	case
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clothes	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 baby	punct
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle		a stone not said here		baby clothes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in clothes=Destination

Option 2

A bundle of goat hair cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hair	compound
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloth	compound
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bundle	nmod

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

Option 3

A heavy stone bundled in swaddling cloths meant for the newborn Zeus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meant	nsubj
4	bundled	bundle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stone	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cloths	case
6	swaddling	swaddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cloths	amod
7	cloths	cloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bundled	obl
8	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 Zeus	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Zeus	det
11	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Zeus	amod
12	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 meant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bundle	participle		a heavy stone not said here	swaddling cloths		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	swaddle	gerund					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	mean	past	a heavy stone			for the newborn Zeus	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for zeus=Attribute

Option 4

A lamb wrapped in a blanket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lamb	det
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lamb	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 blanket	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blanket	det
6	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle		a lamb not said here		a blanket			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in blanket=Destination

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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