Exam question 4 · Greek and Roman Myths, The Titans and Zeus, part 3: Cronus…

Describe the fate to which Cronus consigned those who resisted him.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Cronus · What happens: describe, consign, resist · To what, where: fate, Cronus

This is exam question 4 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fate	det
3	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 consigned	obl
6	Cronus	Cronus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 consigned	nsubj
7	consigned	consign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fate	acl:relcl
8	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 consigned	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 resisted	nsubj
10	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 those	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 resisted	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the fate		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fate=Theme
2	consign	past	Cronus	the fate	to the fate	tree rules
3	resist	past		Cronus		tree rules

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

Imprisonment in Hades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Hades	case
3	Hades	Hade	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Imprisonment	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Confinement in Tartarus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Tartarus	case
3	Tartarus	Tartarus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Confinement	nmod

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

Option 3

Banishment to the seas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Banishment	banishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 seas	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seas	det
4	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Banishment	nmod

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

Option 4

Exile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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