Exam question 4 · Greek and Roman Myths, Division of the World and Origin of…

Which age of humankind is described as enjoying life without sorrow or war?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, enjoy · To what, where: age, life

This is exam question 4 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 age	det
2	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 described	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 humankind	case
4	humankind	humankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 age	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 described	aux:pass
6	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 enjoying	mark
8	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 described	advcl
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enjoying	obj
10	without	without	ADP	_	11 sorrow	case
11	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enjoying	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 war	cc
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sorrow	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which age of humankind					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	enjoy	gerund		life				without sorrow or war	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus

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

Iron Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Age	compound
2	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Heroic Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Age	det
2	Heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Age	amod
3	Age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Golden Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Age	det
2	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Age	amod
3	Age	Age	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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