Exam question 4 · Myths of Ancient Greece, Zeus, part 6: Zeus's oracle at Do…

Which of the following accurately identifies the mother of the twins Amphion and Zethus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, identify · To what, where: mother

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 twins	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 twins	det
11	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mother	nmod
12	Amphion	Amphion	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 twins	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Zethus	cc
14	Zethus	Zethus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Amphion	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the mother of the twins				accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Theme

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

Antiope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Alcmene

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Semele, the mother of Dionysus by Zeus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Semele	Semele	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Semele	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Dionysus	case
6	Dionysus	Dionysus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Zeus	case
8	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Dionysus	nmod

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

Option 4

Alcmene, the mother of Heracles and Iphicles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alcmene	Alcmene	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Alcmene	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Heracles	case
6	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Iphicles	cc
8	Iphicles	Iphicles	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Heracles	conj

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

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