Exam question 3 · Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of…

Which command did the oracle of Themis deliver to Deucalion and Pyrrha?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: command, oracle · What happens: do, deliver · To what, where: Deucalion

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 command	det
2	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oracle	det
5	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deliver	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Themis	case
7	Themis	Themis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 oracle	nmod
8	deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Deucalion	case
10	Deucalion	Deucalion	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 deliver	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Pyrrha	cc
12	Pyrrha	Pyrrha	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Deucalion	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which command						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	deliver	present	the oracle of Themis		Deucalion and Pyrrha				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to deucalion=Destination

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

To build a ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 build	mark
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ship	det
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	to-infinitive		a ship					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ship=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To throw stones behind them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 throw	mark
2	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 throw	obj
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	to-infinitive		stones				behind stones = stone	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme behind they=Destination

Option 3

To pray at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pray	mark
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dawn	case
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pray	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	to-infinitive					dawn		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

To offer a goat at the altar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 offer	mark
2	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 goat	det
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offer	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 altar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 altar	det
7	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	to-infinitive		a goat		the altar			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent goat=Theme

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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