Exam question 2 · Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of…

By what means did Zeus achieve the defeat of Typhoeus?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zeus · What happens: mean, achieve, defeat · To what, where: defeat, Typhoeus

This is exam question 2 of lesson 498 «Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of Man, part 4: the brothers share the world, the giants and Typhon are beaten, and a flood drowns the wicked race» 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=Rel	6 achieve	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 achieve	aux
5	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 achieve	nsubj
6	achieve	achieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 defeat	det
8	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 achieve	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Typhoeus	case
10	Typhoeus	Typhoeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 defeat	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 achieve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	achieve	past · do-support	Zeus	the defeat of Typhoeus	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defeat=Eventuality
3	defeat			Typhoeus	nom defeat «event transitive»: of=patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

By a thunderbolt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 thunderbolt	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thunderbolt	det
3	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 sword	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sword	det
3	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

By trickery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 trickery	case
2	trickery	trickery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By a bronze spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 spear	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spear	det
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spear	compound
4	spear	spear	NOUN	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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