Exam question 1 · Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Do…
With reference to the passage, in which region was the oracle of Zeus at Dodona situated?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: region · What happens: be, situate · To what, where: oracle, passage
This is exam question 1 of lesson 500 «Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Dodona, the Olympic games, and his wives» 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 reference | case |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 situated | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 passage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 passage | det |
| 5 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reference | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 oracle | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 oracle | obl |
| 9 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oracle | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 oracle | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oracle | det |
| 12 | oracle | oracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passage | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Zeus | case |
| 14 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 oracle | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Dodona | case |
| 16 | Dodona | Dodona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 oracle | nmod |
| 17 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 situated | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | region | the oracle | the passage and the oracle | of Zeus; at Dodona | tree rules | ||
| 2 | situate | participle | with reference to the passage and the oracle | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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
Epirus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Epirus | Epirus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Thrace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thrace | thrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
northern Thessaly by the river Peneus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Thessaly | amod |
| 2 | Thessaly | Thessaly | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 river | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thessaly | nmod |
| 6 | Peneus | Peneus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Thessaly | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the mountains of Pindus beyond the Macedonian plains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mountains | det |
| 2 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Pindus | case |
| 4 | Pindus | Pindus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mountains | nmod |
| 5 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 8 plains | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plains | det |
| 7 | Macedonian | Macedonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 plains | compound |
| 8 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mountains | nmod |
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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